Name of organisation

Toutito Teatro

Country

France

Organisation website

https://www.toutitoteatro.fr/

Contact person

Peggy Riess

Organisation type

Association

Scale of the organization

FTE 2023 : 3,37

PIC number

-

Aims and activities of the organisation

Create, produce and promote live shows for all audiences

Promote and participate in the emergence of cultural projects

Propose and develop workshops and training for a wide audience (school, children, adolescents, adults, people with social difficulties)

Role of the organisation in the project

Project coordination

Sector or field

theater

Description or summary of the proposed project

For several years, Toutito Teatro has been engaged in a creative process around a thematic cycle. From 2018 to 2022, we worked around the theme of family. In 2021, we were questioned by a Hungarian word: Ünnep. Very quickly, we decided to focus on this concept for a new cycle of creations.

Ünnep is a Hungarian word which can only be translated into French by several words because it brings together in its etymology several concepts at the same time. This can mean: party, celebration, holidays, gathering but also “the small and big events of life”. What appeals to us in this concept is the porosity of apparently contradictory emotions during the same event. Ünnep is “a time apart” which takes us away from everyday life, a moment which can be experienced by a single individual but also shared, in a group or even by an entire society. In the sociological journal JELKEP, Hungarian sociologists Kàpitany Agnes and Gàbor describe Ünnep “as a memory technique which sheds light on the imprint of this concept on individuals through its “extra-ordinary” dimension […] Remembering, we always choose it. Through this selection of memories, human being distinguishes certain events from the ordinary […]. In a certain sense, he makes them “festive” by distinguishing them from everyday moments that do not deserve to be remembered. »

To talk about Ünnep is to question our memories, the traces that the events that mark our lives leave us, and sometimes act as a rite of passage when the ordinary is reorganized, leaves room for change and marks a stage in the life of an individual or group. It seems important to us to involve the inhabitants of the territories where we will work in this creation, to include them in our research and to explore this concept of Ünnep with different audiences, and therefore to set up territorial residences.

We also want to observe this idea through the reading grid of different cultures. We naturally turn to Hungary and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to reflect on Ünnep in its original language, but also because our company has strong affinities with Hungary in its DNA to the extent that Adam Baladincz is Hungarian, but also because the members of our artistic team met in Budapest around movement theater, very developed in Central and Eastern Europe.

To begin this cycle, Toutito Teatro decided to create a show for a family audience (from 4 years old) entitled SOURIS! which will be created at the end of 2025.

SOURIS ! is a small form where spectators will discover both points of view of a child and a mouse on the same Ünnep: the loss of the first tooth, an episode that will help them grow.

With the influence and energy of swing music, and of gestural and visual theater, accompanied by objects and puppets, the performers will deploy a poetic and offbeat universe in order to celebrate these “little nothings” of everyday life which paradoxically, through their simplicity, transport us into the universal.

Toutito Teatro will initiate, in 2025, a second project around the Lambe lambe. This term refers to a form of live performance originating from Brazil that is designed for one spectator and usually lasts 3 to 5 minutes. Chilean company OANI Teatro based in Valparaiso introduced us to this form that seemed perfectly appropriate to meet our desires: to interact with the public in an intimate space, while offering light and modular forms that can be performed in any type of space. Toutito Teatro will take advantage of this form of miniature puppet theater to invite spectators to discover various ÜNNEPs. With our Lambe lambe, we are considering organizing bicycle tours.

SOURIS ! and the Lambe Lambe will be part of the project The Museum of What Man Preserves, the final form of the Ünnep cycle. 

“What man preserves,” for us, is what we remember when we look back: collections of intimate or collective celebrations that we keep in our memories, and which shape our trajectories.

By using the museum world codes, we will create a living exhibition inspired by the testimonies collected throughout the creative process. Visitors/spectators will be guided by a team of actors and a group of local residents, through an installation featuring the ÜNNEPs of human beings, and objects. The final picture of this museum will be an invitation to celebrate!

spring 2025 Exploratory trip to Eastern Europe

autumn 2025 SOURIS! _ Residence and creation in Veszprém, Hungary

winter 2026 Lambe lambe _ Research and training with the Chilean company OANI TEATRO in France

spring 2026 Lambe lambe _ Laboratory with the 3 partners in Hungary, then residency and creation

summer 2026 Lambe lambe _ Cycling tour in France with artists from the 3 countries

spring 2027 ÜNNEP _ Territorial residence in Eastern Europe

autumn 2027 ÜNNEP _ residency in Hungary

Partners currently involved in the project

Kaboca Bàbszinhàz, Vezprèm

Oani Teatro, Chile

Ongoing search for a third partner

From country or region

Eastern or central Europe

Preferred field of expertise

theater

Please get in contact no later than

December 2024