as part of Spielarten 2025

05.10. – 10.10.2025

SPIELARTEN Festival annually presents the wide scope of independent theatre for young audiences from North Rhine-Westphalia. With the 2025 festival edition, children, youths, school classes and families can experience contemporary drama, dance, and performance for different age groups at the FFT.

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TEATRO 4GAROUPAS

Chiffonnade

Dance for everyone aged 3 and up Young FFT Dance
Eine Frau kniet auf der Bühne, hält Stoffstücke vors Gesicht wie ein Fernglas. Bunte Tücher liegen vor ihr, hinten ein großer Sack.

A sphere rolls across the stage, or is it rather a planet, an ark, or a cocoon?
Between the folds and wrinkles of fabric, the waves of chiffon scarfs and silk, a dancer slides. The audience experiences how a dancer undergoes a metamorphosis: Flourishing, breaking free, discovering, and, finally, flying. CHIFFONADE speaks of emancipation, of a child’s pupa, growing without losing the inquisitive gaze upon the world surrounding them.

cast

Creative Team: Choreography: Michèle Dhallu
Lighting Design: Yves-Marie Corfa
Audio Engineering: Baptiste Verger
Set Design: Coline Vergez, nach einer Originalidee von Anne Rabaron
Original Production: Carré Blanc Cie
Production 2023: T4Garoupas, in coproduction with Carré Blanc Cie.
Local Producer in Germany: Teatro 4Garoupas, Bebê de Soares
Performance: Eugênia Labuhn
Touring Management: AMAZONAS NETWORK

Teatro 4Garoupas was founded in the year 2000 by actress Bebê de Soares and director Arno Kleinofen; Eugênia Labuhn has been an ensemble member since 2021. The freelance ensemble produces children and youth theatre in Hürth and Curitiba (BRA), working with a rotating cast while touring internationally. As German partner of projects SPARSE Plus and Perform Europe, Teatro 4Garoupas transports contemporary performances into rural areas and explores sustainable, inclusive theatre formats. At their focus lie participative works, ecological responsibility and border-crossing collaborations – in accordance with the objective to rethink touring and audience development in Europe.

credits

Production 2023: T4Garoupas (GER/BRA), in coproduction with Carré Blanc Cie (FRA)