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Public space: a mirror of ourselves…
"The moment can last less than a morning, less than an hour, less than a fraction
of a second, the moment can happen
in the blink of an eye…"
Quelque part dans l’inachevé…
Vladimir Jankélévitch
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" Touch, whisper, inspire. Redirect busy roads.
Knock on doors.
Search the town for humanity.
Observe, attract, provoke, negotiate, meet.
Arise fragility. Wake up the sensitive zones.
See the strange differently. Re-examine the familiar.
Lie down on zebra crossings and contemplate the sky.
To the ceaseless movement, offer silence.
Play the public space. In it, with it, for it.
Make conversation move, embody the writing through the spoken word,
wear choice like an armour and go into close contact,
wear it as an armor for closer contact ,
question in situ and reinvent what representations are.
Break down borders between those who give and those who seize.
Try to apply, in the full light ofday, humanism.
Art is contact, body engaged."
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Supports
Deuxième Groupe d’Intervention has an agreement with la DRAC Ile-de-France Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
It is supported by
le Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France
le Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne
le Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine
and la Ville de Malakoff
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SITE-SPECIFIC CONTEMPORARY CLOSE-CONTACT THEATRE
JOURNEY
SITE-SPECIFIC
INTERVENTIONS
CUSTOM MADE
SEARCH
CONTACT
Since 1995 Deuxième Groupe d'Intervention creates artistical situations for, with and within the public space, while researching and elaborating a multi-disciplinary language. This approach, led by Ema Drouin, author and artistic director, is grounded on a contemporary speech (often elaborated in collaboration with writers), on a specific relationship with the audience and the local population throught physical proximity and interactivity, and on relying on the architectural place. Deuxième Groupe d'Intervention claims the public space, a place where anything is possible, as a place of thoughts to be lived in and shared.
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I opened the door, I was eighteen, I took the risk...
Outside, Ema Drouin crosses the path of the Morallès family, with whom she takes off for the first time on a trapeze. In 1987, she meets Philippe Freslon and together they found la Compagnie Off in Tours. There she starts writing, providing inspiration for productions and interventions, giving direction to actors. As trapeze artist and actor, she interprets the unconventional images of the company’s repertoire. In 1990, she breaks free and launches a ‘Deuxième Groupe d’Intervention’ to make contact, expose herself, sex pose, with women and with words. In 1995, she leaves with her ‘inheritance’ to realise her ambition: to write for the street and place the actor and words at the heart of the public arena. She establishes the company Deuxième Groupe d’Intervention (2GI) and sets up residence in the Charles Foix gerontological hospital in Ivry-sur-Seine. Ema D. manages, with Françoise Vuillaume, the group ‘Écrire pour la rue’ (Write for the Street), established by the Ministère de la Culture within the framework of Temps des Arts de la Rue (Time for Street Arts). She is president of La Federation des Arts de la Rue in Ile-de-France for 2006 to 2008. She is a member of the task group, ‘Mais que font les Artistes?’(But What Do Artists Do?) At the end of 2007, Deuxième Groupe d’Intervention left La Blanchisserie and opened ‘boutique’ at Malakoff.
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TRAGÉDIE ! Un poème... Création 2010
For a town square
A chorus gestures, movements and universal words to share a woman’s manifesto that examines hope.
TRAGIC POEM
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ÉTAT(S) DES LIEUX
In a neighbourhood with a square, streets, a balcony, a garage, a garden…
How fluid is the border between inside and out? Are we similar to what surrounds us?
DRAMATIC FICTION
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Le GREP - Groupe de Recherche Ès Poétic Au chevet des cathédrales
For a cathedral nave and aisles
Discover the underside of the postcard.
SENSITIVE, SENSORY JOURNEY
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PAROLES DE MUR - Foire et tragédie
For a 100-metre prison, monastery or cemetery wall...
Philosophical reflections at the foot of the wall.
POETIC RITUAL FOR A WOMEN'S CHORUS
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L’HOMME-BRÈCHE
Four fridges for just one man: a little excessive?
ENCOUNTERS IN A CARDBOARD HOUSE
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LES MAJORETTES
After the march of 1968, the return of the majorettes was awaited with anticipation...
In 2008, armed with a French flag, they sing la Marseillaise.
MARCHING PARADE
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LES YEUX BLEUS
Who is an artist and what is art to you?
Door-to-door canvassing in a town throughout the day concluding with a live television discussion.
INSTALLATION AND PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS
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LES F’ACTEURS
Meetings, conversations and fresh air in a closed environment.
Mounting their bikes, F’actors cycle to the hospital day room to distribute postcards, calendars or chocolates.
HOSPITAL TOUR BY F'ACTORS
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PANOPLIES - Catalogue
For a public place
‘To our mothers’
Beyond appearances, clothes reveal the most about us: a red tailored suit, a black slip, a bridal gown...
BITTER-SWEET FASHION SHOW
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Le GREP - Groupe de Recherche Ès Poétic
Is our environment a subject for contemporary poetry?
Le GREP cordons off and re-considers a ‘section of town’.
SENSITIVE, SENSORY JOURNEY
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FEMMES-BICHES, FEMMES-HÔTESSES, FEMMES-COCKTAIL
From iconic figures declined in color, words and gestures. For all adventure playgrounds.
PERFORMANCES
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ESPACES–ÉCRITS ÉPROUVER LA VILLE
What poetry can be discovered in a place? Can writing construct itself there?
Ema Drouin shares with writers and actors strong sensations experienced in spaces, and suggests letting the ink flow…
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Deuxième Groupe d’Intervention occasionally offers internships and amateur workshops for those interested in writing for and working with actors in public spaces.
Furthermore, Ema Drouin frequently joins various practical or theoretical sessions (la FAIAR - Formation Avancée Itinérante pour les Arts de la Rue, l'Atelier 231, le réseau Arts de Ville).
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Phone: +33 954 33 95 05
Mobile: +33 630 95 77 31
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