BARO D’EVEL

• Authors Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias
• Collaboration in Directing Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis / Mal Pelo
• Collaboration in Dramaturgy Barbara Métais-Chastanier
• Set design and Costumes Lluc Castells
• Lighting Design María de la Cámara and Gabriel Paré / Cube.bz
• Musical Collaboration and Sound Creation Fanny Thollot
• Musical Collaboration and Music Pierre-François Dufour
• Material and Colour Research Bonnefrite
• Ceramic Percussion Engineer Thomas Pachoud
• Technical Management Romuald Simonneau
• Ceramist Sébastien De Groot
• Accessoirist, Ceramist Benjamin Porcedda
• Stage Management Mathieu Miorin
• Lights Management Enzo Giordana
• Sound Management Cholé Levoy
• Dresser Alba Viader
• Cook Ricardo Gaiser
• Managing Director and Promotion Laurent Ballay
• Production Administrator Caroline Mazeaud
• Production Manager Pierre Compayré
• Administration Assistant Élie Astier
• With Lucia Bocanegra, Noëmie Bouissou, Camille Decourtye, Miguel Fiol, Dimitri Jourde, Chen-Wei Lee, Blaï Mateu Trias or Claudio Stellato, Yolanda Sey, Julian Sicard, Marti Soler, Maria Carolina Vieira, Guillermo Weickert

Lasts approx. 100’ no interval

In French, Catalan, Spanish, English, Portuguese with Turkish surtitles

‘We are the winners. Now, what will we change?’ With this urgent question at its heart, the Franco-Catalan collective Baro d’evel brings together dancers, musicians, actors, acrobats, ceramicists, and clowns in an ecological ceremony on stage.

In a world surrounded by the traces of catastrophe, how can we believe in our ability to invent a new story amidst the ruins – to imagine an entirely different narrative? Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias, founders of the Baro d’evel, respond: ‘Only by surrendering ourselves to a ceremony, to a moment of enchantment.’

Premiered to critical acclaim at the 2024 Avignon Festival, Who are we? was met with standing ovations. During the creative process, the company worked with clay, experimented with colour, and upcycled plastic for set and costume design. They went on walks in nature, encountered herds of horses, joined grape harvests, and celebrated around ceramic kilns. They ran clown workshops exploring our relationship to the shaman figure – and brought to the stage a breathless rhythm born of all these lived experiences.

The scenes in the show, which oscillate between harmony and chaos, hope and despair, dream and reality, follow one another at a dizzying pace. The most contradictory emotions intertwine and merge with equal intensity. The audience’s attention never wavers for a second. The troupe, which approaches each venue where they perform as if it were their new home, is preparing to welcome the audience of the Istanbul Theatre Festival with great hospitality and surprises unique to Istanbul.

With the aim of bringing together all art forms on stage, Baro d’evel works with artists, craftsmen and even animals from different disciplines to produce total works of art. Embracing artistic risk, the collective writes its texts with great care, but builds layered dramaturgies that remain open to improvisation – offering space for what might otherwise be overlooked, or what lies beyond the reach of human language, to come to life on stage.

This show will be the first part of a triptych that will raise questions about the group, the individual and the space.

Qui som?: Who are we? A group piece
Qui soc?: Who am I? What am I made of? How did I come to be here? A work on matter around the transformation
On som?: Where are we? A ceramic installation, a sound journey shaped by hand

‘Qui som? tells a powerful story that confronts human fragility, bringing to the stage a tale of resistance in the face of despair and resignation.’
— Le Monde

‘Qui som? brings together dance, music, theatre, circus and ceramics to pose a sensitive question: What would our society look like after collapse?’
— La Libre Belgique

General sales begin at 10.30 on Friday, 20 June at passo.com.tr. More information on ticket sales available here.