Presentation
Public presentations : indoors or outdoors, on-site or in the surrounding rural communities, and also school presentation are important moments for engaging with audiences.
This creative and educational work mix various forms and practices. These dynamic practices, from the first sketches to the most accomplished forms, place the Tapis Vert projects in the long term, beyond the event.
This commitment to artistic creation and practice is based on a network of skills: cultural institutions, teachers, performing arts professionals and on the infrastructure made available: rehearsal rooms, big top and accommodation.
The Association of Rencontres du Tapis Vert participates in artistic emergence, trains the talents of tomorrow, provides rehearsal spaces for creators, and allows fruitful encounters between artists from different backgrounds, from academic or traditional worlds, between amateurs and professionals, children and adults.
De l'Arbre au mât de Cocagne Laure Piquet - Aksak
The Big Top of Tapis Vert
Residencies
The Tapis Vert hosts or organizes nearly 60 artistic projects per year, including creative residencies, recordings, writing workshops, and rehearsals.
Several options are offered:
Following a selection process, the association supports certain creative residency projects.
Co-production with provision of spaces and equipment.
Rental of spaces and equipment, and logistical support.
The hosted can be private entities: theater companies, musical groups, or public entities. In addition, the association hosts corporate seminars if they incorporate an artistic practice (theater, clowning, music, circus, etc.) illustrating the seminar's theme: team building, stress management.
Enregistrement Gamelan
Amateur and professional training courses
The Rencontres du Tapis Vert association is a registered training organization. The association offers workshops in Balkan music and dance, klezmer music, music from the Middle East (Iran and India), and chamber music. These workshops may be eligible for funding by employers, municipalities, and local authorities. Funding for professional development workshops, particularly through OPCA (Accredited Joint Collection Organizations), is possible, but this requires an agreement with a QUALIOPI-certified organization.
Audition de musique de chambre
School of circus'art
The Tapis Vert circus school welcomes around forty children aged 5 to 14 and adults each week for training in circus arts: juggling, acrobatics, partner acrobatics, trapeze, aerial silks, balancing on the ball, and clowning.
The participants come from neighboring villages within a 25 km radius.
Four-year course: discovery, initiation, development, improvement.
The circus school is run by instructors from national circus schools (Châlons, Berlin, Montreal, etc.), who hold the BPJEPS, BIAC, or DE (State Diploma in Circus Arts). The instructors' departmental accreditation allows them to organize circus arts awareness programs for schoolchildren. These programs can run throughout the school year.
Learn more about the class.
Circus school
Open call
In response to open call like rural territory, cultural territory of the DRAC Normandy, two propositions of the association were selected. The first one proposed to listen the territory, source of imaginary. The second project, which also received FEADER (Europe) funding, aimed to expand the repertoire of local brass bands to include Balkan music (Serbia, Macedonia, etc.). Collaboration with the national education system and parents of students has led to various projects: the "chapitophone", the big top as a musical instrument, let's stay Poly, with CRD d'Alençon and the National Education system.
Le "chapitophone" Project of the Condé/Sarthe' school
Distribution
Le Tapis Vert welcomes the public during residencies or workshops for a public presentation, a creation, public courses, a premiere of shows and external distribution in connection with cultural structures such as ScèneNationale 61.
Cabaret ARMODO
Support and partners
The Tapis Vert, located in a rural revitalization zone, becomes a structuring player in the territory, connected to economic and cultural life of l’Orne and the neighboring departments of the Sarthe and of the Mayenne. Recognized as being of general interest and eligible to receive donations, the association is supported by Le Ministère de la Culture about open call, le Conseil Départemental de l’Orne (support residencies), and La Communauté Urbaine d’Alençon and the town of Lalacelle, St Denis/ Sarthon, Ravigny, Ciral (circus project).
His partners are Le Samovar, Parc Régional Normandie Maine, Scène Nationale 61, La Luciole, La Loure, La Brèche.
Link with les Compagnies, ensembles, structures et artistes: Passerelle Théâtre, Emergence et culture, Samba de la Muerte, Ajema, Ouranies, Blizzard, Théâtre Ozenne, Aksak, Danser le Tango, Les Arts Improvisés, Chestnut, Alphonse la Nuit, Haylen, Des pieds des mains, Maeve, Un pont sur le Bosphore, Cirque Exalté, Chapelmele, Traversons, Méli Mélo, Neuvième ruche, In vento, Orchestre 2035, Collectif Toujours, Collectif Pourquoi Pas, Compagnie XY, EL Nucleo, SiSINonNon, Arielle Beck, Polyphème (Wassim Halal), Marching band
