Flamboyants! — Three Creole Worlds, One Stage
Performance
Les flamboyants @Tilawcis Collective
Réunionese theater company Tilawcis Collective brings its latest production, Flamboyants!, to Chicago and Saint Paul/Minneapolis for a series of performances, workshops, and a director talk exploring the shared Creole histories of Réunion Island, New Orleans, and Puerto Rico.
A 2025 Villa Albertine resident in Puerto Rico, Director Florient Jousse developed the project through an artistic exchange with Big Chief Juan Pardo, a prominent figure in New Orleans’s Mardi Gras Indian tradition. Their encounter revealed connections between the cultural histories of Réunion and New Orleans, later expanded through Puerto Rican musical traditions. Performed in Louisiana Creole, Réunion Creole, French, English, and Spanish, Flamboyants! explores how music and performance can preserve and reinvent collective memory.
Chicago & Saint Paul/Minneapolis Events
October 6 — Director Talk with Florient Jousse
Alliance Française de Chicago
An evening with the director exploring the origins and creative process behind Flamboyants!.
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October 8 — Flamboyants! Performances
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
🕐 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM
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October 3–9 — Community Events & Workshops
Chicago
The Chicago visit will also include a series of workshops, story telling and community activities, offering participants the opportunity to engage directly with the artists and explore the musical, theatrical, and cultural traditions at the heart of Flamboyants!.
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October 13 — Flamboyants! in Minneapolis
Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota
🕢 7:30 PM
Presented in partnership with the Alliance Française Minneapolis/St. Paul.
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Supported by Albertine Theater, a program of Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.
In partnership with
Alliance française de Chicago
The Alliance Française de Chicago is over 120 years old and is part of an international network of over 1,100 Alliances and affiliated cultural centers worldwide. It is the second oldest Alliance Française in the US and second largest after the Alliance Française in New York City. Classes are offered for all ages and levels of French, leading to certifications in French for professional purposes or simply for experiencing another language and its various cultures. It also hosts an impressive array of events, bringing notable lecturers to Chicago: authors, filmmakers and directors, winemakers, chefs, designers, historians, actors and performing artists.
Logan Center for the Arts
Conceived as a home for creative life on the University of Chicago campus, the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is a partner, resource, and catalyst for developing deeper cultural networks and richer creative projects throughout the city and beyond.
Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul
The mission of Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul, an independent chapter of the Alliance Française worldwide network, is to serve its community by promoting the use and appreciation of French language and cultures through language classes, cultural programs, social events and information resources in Minneapolis and St Paul (MN).
The vision of the organization is to build a community of people passionate about francophone culture in all its global diversity, and want to become–through high-quality native language instruction along with authentic and exciting cultural activities and social events–the indispensable destination for all things French!
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