Artonik goes on holiday on a street and installs an artificial field and check tablecloths for a joyful invitation to picnic. In this dance-theater creation, the company offers a reflexion on the impact of free time and leisure in the evolution of modern society.
With radio extracts from the 1950’s to the 1970’s in the background, nine holidaymakers revisit this period of huge social and economic change, where radio enabled a free access to culture for all.
Two solos, two duos and one trio choreographically highlight the changes in thinking through five topics : the discovery of leisure time and camping, the space conquest, the emancipation of women and La Mode, the hippie movement, the first porn films and disco fever... With choregraphed gestures, strange and poetic images, they revisit
ordinary holiday situations - such as the preparation of sunbathing or packing to leave. Spread over the entire field, these five short 12 minutes-long scenes are simultaneously danced and reproduced from one space to another. Common sequences enable the spectators to take part to the show, during a ball game or a gym session.
And before the end of the holidays… Before the last good bye… the public is invited to dance…
TO ATTEND THE SHOW, PUBLIC IS ASKED TO BRING A PIC-NIC.