Formed in the Camargue region in southern France in 1980, ilotopie are pioneers of street theatre, masters of invention and intervention with their theatrical works performed all over the world, transforming everyday places into surrealist representations of vivid imagination.

When Les Gens de Couleur (Coloured People), first appeared in Australia at the 1992 Adelaide Festival, controversy around their performance influenced shifts in local regulations and sparked discussion on how performance art interacts with public spaces.

Performers painted in a second skin of bright colour move through like living sculptures, one colour per person: blue turquoise, bright red, apple green, lemon yellow, fuchsia pink… and a different life circulates, brilliant and fluid.

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