Juliette Louste Company is a recently established dance company in France which works multidisciplinary, by combining dance with live music, acting and visual arts.

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It's the same old dream... - 2012

Following the success of "It's the same old dream...", "Réalités Parallèles" and "Duodd, duoesn't it?", Juliette Louste, the director, is bringing international artists to Iceland for the creation of Dracula's Pack, the company's first big scale performance.

The occasion is to celebrate the power of collaborating with people from different countries and cultures. Artists from seven countries will create the show together in June and July 2016, in Tjarnarbíó Theatre in Reykjavik.

The project will be premiered in the end of June and be performed in the Icelandic never setting sunlight.

Why Iceland?

Since 2013, Juliette has worked several times in this atypical island, magic and unique in so many ways. There, she discovered Tjarnarbíó, in icelandic: the theatre over the pond; the independent theatre house in Iceland. It is probably the most Icelandic venue in the capital: magic and unique, with great dreams, a wish to open their house to international artists, and a huge attraction for new experiments and challenges. Always trying to create bridges in the artistic world around the planet, the Company has found in it an undeniable opportunity to collaborate and exchange.

Aware of the challenge of bringing such a project in Iceland, we then decided to contact all the other small venues of the capital to be able to perform almost everyday in Reykajvík, during the three weeks the team will be complete. Every night with a different show, every evening sharing and interacting with new artists, audiences and other elements, enjoying every moment to exchange languages, points of view, ideas, concerns, dreams and hopes.

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view from Tjarnarbíó theatre, Reykjavík

Dracula's Pack is conceived as a construction game in all aspects of its composition.

The show starts when the audience enters the building and will be handed a question paper with multiple choices that will affect the whole performance, from the creation of the characters to the show's final moment, making each performance unique.

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Monk'ments, Doble Quartet - 2013

In parallel to the creation process, we will organize activities such as workshops, interventions, concerts, improvisations and happenings in the Tjarnarbio theatre in Reykjavik and other venues.

DCode - BCN - 2011

(interpretation: Juliette Louste - composition: Toni Vaquer)

Our vision is that Art is one of the most powerful weapons to make us connect with our true/inner-selves. People are the only hope to change the world. Therefore Art is one of the most powerful weapons to change the World.

Here are the artists involved in Dracula's Pack:

Director and Choreographer - Juliette Louste

Musical Director - Hjalti Steinn Sigurdarson

Technical Director - Valdimar Johansson

Set Designer - Victor Peralta

Costume Designer - René Boonekamp - Lemke Meijer

Visual Artist - Tomas Freyr Thorgeirsson

Production and Marketing - Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir

Director Assistant - Tura Gómez Coll

Actors - Arnþór Þórsteinsson - Bergdis Julia Johannsdottir - Kjartan Darri Kristjánsson - Daniel Thor Bjarnason

Dancers - Mirte Bogaert - Oscar Perez Romero - Tura Gómez Coll - Juliette Louste

Musicians - Toni Vaquer Grimalt - Iván González - Albert Cirera - Ramon Prats - Ingvi Rafn Björgvinsson - Hjalti Steinn Sigurdarson

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Duodd, duoesn't it? - 2016