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Show, concert, tour ... at the time of Covid-19, the live show bounces on the Internet

2020-05-14T08:43:55.783Z


Digital tours, interactive stand-up shows, shows offered on social networks… Artists are reinventing themselves in mo


Monday in Lille, Tuesday in Strasbourg, Thursday in Saint-Raphaël, the next day in Paris ... The musician Medi experienced the rhythm of a real tour last week. Like before. The Aircraft, the Dairy, the Palladium Bus: the singer scoured the rooms with his guitar and his "feel good" songs. With one detail: he performed live on the Facebook pages of the various places from his living room in Nice.

"It's weird to say, but I really feel the people, the room , says the one who was notably the drummer of Charlie Winston. You have to call on your imagination but when you see on the counter that there are 160 or 200 people, well you have to go there, pick them up! And when people disconnect a bit, it's like when, in concert, some people chat at the bar. "

MEDI "On Digital Tour 2020": The Factory (St-Raphaël) - Show

Gepostet von L'Usine concept store am Mittwoch, 6. May 2020

Imagine new formats

One example among others of how the performing arts tries to bounce on the canvas. The artists did not wait for the recent speech by Emmanuel Macron urging them to "reinvent themselves" to imagine new formats. Since the cinemas closed in March, initiatives have flourished. First there were the songs of stars or the video clips of comedians posted on social networks. And then things started to get structured.

Le Printemps de Bourges, which usually marks the start of the festival season, was the first to have to revise its copy by turning into “Imaginary Spring”. The day they were to perform on stage, the artists unveiled a new creation on the Internet. Result: 110 videos, 500,000 views and more than 3 million visitors.

Half a million views is also almost the score already reached by Dédo. The comedian, cut in the middle of his third show, decided to put his second (and very successful) one-man show online, for free, on YouTube while DVDs were being prepared. "Just a cool gesture to give people an hour to think about something else and laugh," sums up the humorist. Positive aspect: this showcase allowed him to reach an audience who did not know him. "If it can help fill the rooms after ..."

To get back into the game

Keeping up with the public is also what Shirley Souagnon had in mind when she launched her stand-up platforms on the Web in early May under the aegis of her very young Parisian room, the Barbès Comedy Club . The comedian, who has just launched a kitty on the Web to save his house from stand-up, organizes interactive lives via the Zoom application with the presence of the public in boxes. "For us humorists, it's another way to get back into the game," agrees Sebastian Marx, one of the participants. We may be dependent on this format for a long time. We must therefore try to tame it as well as possible. "

Shirley Souagnon (left) launched her stand-up platforms on the Web in early May. On Time prod x Blonde production  

"With the new digital tools, there are vibrations that I did not feel before", positive Medi. The singer will be live on Tuesday from the Chateau Rouge Facebook page in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) and from the Mas des Escaravatiers in Puget-sur-Argens (Var) on Thursday. On the (digital) road, again.

Festivals are also reinventing themselves

To avoid a black summer, despite the absence of international artists, more and more festivals are following the example of Printemps de Bourges with its “Imaginary Spring”.

In Paris, the very ecological and pop We Love Green is preparing a digital edition on June 6 and 7. Good news for jazz lovers, the essential Marciac (Gers) is working on a virtual edition from July 24 to August 15 and the Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines) festival will run at the end of May "to continue to promote and remunerate artists and all the entertainment professions, from the press secretary to the sound engineer ”. Seven concerts (Bireli Lagrène, Anne Paceo, David Linx, André Ceccarelli…), filmed with a reduced team and audience in the old church of the town, will be broadcast from June 12 to 21 on social media and the festival website .

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A major classic event in early July, the Rencontres musicales d'Évian will offer from 4 to 9 six concerts without audiences but broadcast live on Radio Classique and Medici.tv. The legendary Grange au Lac will welcome Marie-Agnès Gillot, the Modigliani and Ebène quartets, Gautier Capuçon…

Cinema also has a respondent. The Atmosphères Festival , which has been bringing together artists and scientists around the sciences and the environment for ten years in October in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), has been organized since the start of confinement in a weekly meeting on Friday at 6 p.m. on YouTube , "The Pangolin effect", led by its honorary president, Sébastien Folin. The next will bring together astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, singer Yaël Naïm and street artist C 215.

In Paris, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival is maintained "on line" from June 9 to 16 with free access to selected films, masterclasses by Stephen Frears and Edgar Wright and concerts by Barbara Carlotti, Lucie Antunes, Yuksek, Clara Ysé…

The prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival is also maintained from June 15 to 30 with accreditation for the general public, which will allow access to films in competition, short films, cinema lessons, etc. This is the only festival paying, but for 15 euros, the offer should be attractive. The selection will be announced on May 18.

Source: leparis

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