It was supposed to be a simple school performance.
During an event organized by two schools in Union (Haute-Garonne), students were invited to participate in a play in front of their parents, reports the
France 3 Occitanie
news channel .
But right in the middle of the images projected on the back of the stage, drawings of naked men and women, engaged in sexual intercourse, are displayed.
It's difficult to justify such an artistic choice in the face of parents' indignant reactions.
From the beginning of the piece, some people had doubts.
“The actor went shirtless in his boxers for a locker room scene, but we didn't understand
,” one of them explained to France 3.
The parents in the room didn't applaud or laugh. not".
Subliminal images
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, Daniel Rodier, president of the
“Rêve de fou-t associés”
association at the origin of the show, entitled “Le Monde au bout du pied”
,
tries to calm the controversy.
Only two mothers of students, he said, protested, including one who filmed the projected images and slowed down to be able to observe the drawing more closely.
In fact, the images are projected at a very jerky rhythm: they are in reality subliminal images.
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“The vast majority of the public, the parents present and of course the students applauded, stayed for a drink afterwards, and many thanked us for this meeting
,” he continues.
The duo of actors from the association said they were in
“great distress”
.
“
It’s an extremely rapid montage, where the images scroll subliminally.
Personally, I have never noticed these images before, although we have played this show many times,
explains one of them, Jean-Michel Hernandez, to France 3 Occitanie
.
“Denounce the hot evenings of footballers”
The images were projected to “
denounce the hot evenings of footballers”,
adds his sidekick Serge Soula to the local channel
.
In Le
Figaro
, the latter also expresses his dismay at the scale of the affair:
“We are working on the values transmitted in sport in our time and we find ourselves pilloried.
How can you create such a big buzz with so little material?
The management of the two schools, for their part, assures France 3 Occitanie that
“the show has been offered many times in many schools”
and
“that no problem has been raised in the past”
.
Despite everything, she continues,
“the choreographer takes this remark very seriously and will modify his illustration, with the aim of improving the quality of his show”.
“Le Monde au bout du pied” aims to raise awareness about the commercial excesses in the world of football.
Lasting 1 hour 30 minutes, the show only requires the participation of students for
“around ten minutes”
, according to the testimony of a parent for the local channel.
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Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the Toulouse rectorate explains that the school management was alerted to the dissemination of these images and
“immediately took this seriously and informed the Haute-Garonne academic inspection.”
The Departmental Council, for its part, says it
will “meet the company in the coming days to evaluate the show”
.
The secular and civic journey
This show was offered as part of the “secular and citizen” course, proposed by the Departmental Council, in conjunction with National Education.
Established by the department in 2016, this course offers colleges actions carried out by associations in Haute-Garonne, aimed at
“explaining to students the values of the Republic and secularism”,
explains the Departmental Council.
The associations are selected by a large committee, made up of elected officials from the departmental council, representatives of National Education, parents and college management staff.
Each structure undertakes to comply with the specifications established by the Departmental Council.
This year, 260 associations were selected, presenting a catalog of actions from which teachers can select those that interest them.
Among them, the famous play of discord, the performances of which have been suspended.