Founded by Jean-Baptiste Duperray in 1994, the Compagnie des Quidams has created around fifteen shows. With between 100 to 150 performances per year, the artists of the Compagnie des Quidams have traveled to around fifty countries, from Costa Rica to South Africa, including Japan and Australia. In a visual, luminous and musical universe, the company introduces strangeness and poetry into everyday life, and with the help of giant costumes and metamorphoses, takes over the public space to transform it for the duration of a show. As in an invitation to dream, everyone can give free rein to his imagination and create his own story. The company brings together around thirty artists and technicians from diverse backgrounds (theater, dance, music, circus, etc.). It is based in Bresse Vallons, a village in the north of Ain. Alongside her distribution activity, she develops street arts awareness projects (public rehearsals, training courses, artistic practice workshops, etc.). In 2023, following an artistic handover, Vincent Borel, Françoise Hueso-Chapon and Bastien Rolly become the new artistic managers of the company. "By taking over everyday places, the Street Arts create encounters, arouse emotions, and invite the spectator to see and experience them differently. We think of our creations as an invitation to dream, to give free rein to one's imagination, a space of freedom where each person, through the images proposed, can write his or her own story. The language is made of gestures, dances, music, silences; public spaces, in the city as well as in the country, to transform them for the duration of a show. The Company of Quidams