

HUMAN PLAYGROUND
Founded and directed by Milan Gervais, Human Playground creates performances and experiences in urban space.
Since 2009, Human Playground has been developing a process of reflection, a writing style and devices specifically designed for the public space and places derived from the generic architecture of modern cities, offering a dialogue, in movement, between the body, urbanity and society.
Driven by a desire to play on unconventional terrain, HPG invests the city, occupying both its physical and symbolic spaces to generate collective experiences and question the matrix of our constructed reality.
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SHOWS AVAILABLE

PARKING_L’OUBLIÉ | OFF-SITE SHOW


SUMMARY - PARKING_L'OUBLIÉ
Creation 2017 / A stroll through the city / 40min
4 Dancers
On the bangs of the urban frenzy, this deambulatory show invites the audience to follow a series of events that turn the lives of 4 individuals upside down.
Guided by a mobile sound system, the audience is led through a succession of 5 locations, each of which contains a chapter in this intimate drama.
Parking engages the spectator as witness, arousing emotion and provoking reflection on loss and our relationship with the present. At night, light panels illuminate the scenes.
INSCAPE | IN-SITU


SUMMARY - INSCAPE
Creation 2019 / In Situ / 40min / 5 Dancers
INSCAPE is an deambulatory performance that unfolds in an outdoor multi-level parking. Performed by five dancers, the hour-and-a-quarter-long choreographic work appropriates the architecture and imagination of this radical structure.
At the crossroads of contemporary dance and urban events, INSCAPE questions and takes an introspective look at the urban infrastructures that shape our living environments. The show is inspired by this No Man's Land, a troubled place in the collective imagination, and appropriates it as both subject and stage.
As they ascend, the audience passes through a succession of five living scenes whose bodies corrode the aridity of the place and imbue it with sensoriality. Each level immerses the audience in a new universe inspired by the spirit of the place, evoking in turn a place of wandering and itinerancy, a jewel box where a little humanity is placed, a border zone between sociality and animosity, a landing strip.
Each scene exploits an architectural dimension, revealing the space from different angles and offering a new configuration for the audience. The scenes are bathed in a distinctive atmosphere of light and sound, with a mobile sound system following the audience.