WINTER TALES
The entertainment district brings together an incredible concentration of performance venues and theaters in particular. One of its missions is to ensure the enrichment and preservation (...) of the performing arts and theaters.
Contes en hiver is a gigantic open-air shadow theater that invades the Place des Festivals. This immersive and participatory experience brings this art form out of the stage and into the public space. It allows visitors to become the main characters and create their own tale.
This shadow theater will take the form of a large dreamlike winter landscape that stretches the length of the square.
During the day, the visitor walks through this long corridor that looks like an enchanted forest. He discovers the fauna and flora of Quebec winter materialized by large white silhouettes fixed in 2 dimensions (fir trees, birches, bears, moose, foxes, owls ...)
The corridor is delimited by a succession of translucent screens that will host, in the evening, the shadow theater paintings. But during the day, it is the sun's path that animates the landscape and draws shadows on the snow.
The discovery of Winter Tales is also sound. When the visitor moves in front of the animals of the forest, it triggers music composed of several classical instruments. Each animal is interpreted by an instrument. For example, when the visitor passes the bear, he triggers the timpani. The more the forest is traversed, the more it broadcasts a large orchestra.
This meeting of classical instruments and the installation on the Place des Festivals would be the occasion of a beautiful collaboration between the Quartier des spectacles and the OSM.
When evening comes, the winter landscape becomes a shadow theater.
At night, visitors can choose from several roles. As a spectator: he or she walks along the screens outside the corridor and watches the shadow theater in motion.
The actor: inside the corridor, he adds his shadow to the rest of the painting, he can incarnate the frightening monster or the courageous hero.
That of the director: in the center of the corridor, large luminous spots rotate 360°. The visitor can maneuver them to animate the shadows of the silhouettes, playing with the movement of light and colors.
Tales in Winter at Night is summarized in two experiences, one inside the set where the visitor is an actor and creator of moving shadow paintings. The one outside the set, where the visitor attends the show, takes a picture of it and shares it.
Tales in Winter is the theater of an infinity of stories and unique paintings. The experience is constantly renewed as visitors take ownership.
Once upon a time, there was a great winter tale in the Quartier des spectacles.
Come and live your own adventure story, become the hero of this great journey of exploration in Quebec in a large shadow theater. Daytime or evening journey, each quest will be unique.
Start the discovery:
Chapter 1 from Sainte-Catherine Street, cross the plain and the lake.
Chapter 2, enter the dark forest and meet its inhabitants.
Chapter 3, complete your quest in the far north.
nvent your character and go to meet the fauna and flora as if you were crossing Quebec from south to north! The discovery of Winter Tales is also aural. When the visitor passes in front of the animals of the forest, he triggers music composed of several classical instruments. Each animal is interpreted by an instrument.
Let your imagination run wild to create your own tale.
(From competitor's text)
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What the jury particularly liked about the proposed installation was its great poetry.
"There is a beautiful spirit of magic, it is charming and you fall back into childhood. The interaction is simple, aimed at an audience of all ages and is all about fun. The idea of giving the public the opportunity to express themselves in a public place is strong. So are the different ways to participate in the project. This is probably the service that best meets the participatory and experiential component.
On the other hand, the technical resolution to keep the screens in place did not convince the jury. The system weighs down the concept visually and other ways of doing things would probably have been more appropriate in the context.
In the first stage, the jury had made comments on the script outline. The team had to think about the possibilities of scripting the different screens throughout the course. However, the performance remained very embryonic at this level. The addition of a scriptwriter to the team could have contributed to broaden the possibilities of the work and would have undoubtedly made it possible to better frame the references at the level of the tale and to improve the purpose of the installation.
(From jury report)
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