The Blue bird, Variations

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An initiatory journey

Tyltyl and Mytyl, woodcutter children, are deeply sleeping. Lights of Christmas’ evening at the rich’ home are shining bright through the wood shutters. The two children seem are awaking when a hunchback fairy appears in their bedroom. She orders to Tyltyl to get the blue bird, the only remedy able to cure her daughter from a mysterious illness: she wants to be happy… To help them, the fairy lends a magical diamond which gives the ability to hear and to see the soul of things and time. 

Begun in 2015, The Blue bird’s creation has become a serie of working steps. These « intermediate-shows » working like a promotion campaign on a creation process are a necessary requirement to enter one day in the performing arts industry. However, this « economic model » for artistic creation seemed to me farer and farer from my relation to Maeterlinck’s philosophical tale… This personal process was not to be completed with one more show; it could instead be a movement of transformations going from one artistic form to another, existing for itself with fragility, strength and shared only once with an audience. I remembered words I had heard from Christo. This situation was not a dead end but could open another way of thinking and working on this theatrical art piece… 

Christo

“My projects have nearly a legend dimension where reality and non-reality mix (…) they’re projects deeply linked to freedom (…) they’re projects we can’t buy, we can’t market, we can’t control and which are ephemeral.”

…Then I imagined this project starting with scenes of the play taken separately or by two or three. Different artistic forms were born, each one for an unique show – a performance art theatre in a way. These particular conditions of creation afford me to continue the journey started five years ago.

Each step gives the starting point of the next one. There is an idea of the walking and inner journey which are important to me. 

Eric Schlaeflin

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