WHERE IS THE SKIER? is a multilingual and multidisciplinary project designed for children aged 3 to 11 and the adults who accompany them.
It is a playful and immersive storytelling device — a space where imagination, art, and movement come together to tell the story of a missing skier.
Children are the protagonists of this adventure. Guided by an unusual mountain guide, accompanied by music and, when needed, a translator, they follow color-coded trails — like those on a real ski map — as they set out to find the skier who has disappeared into the white.
The search becomes a journey through ever-changing landscapes, made of geometric shapes and colors, materials to touch, and structures to climb and cross. Along the way, the explorers encounter a soundtrack to dance to, a story to listen to, and costumes to wear.
Will they find the skier?
To continue the search, children play a series of interactive games:
a chamboule-tout, fishing, collective drawings, building and assembling shapes, rolling paper cars through an imaginary city, cubes, puzzles, and more.
Every action — stacking, collapsing, creating, dressing up — becomes part of the living performance. Children and adults co-create a fantastical universe together, exchanging ideas and emotions without words, through gestures, colors, and shared play.
Beyond the digital world, WHERE IS THE SKIER? offers a hands-on, collaborative experience — as if everyone were making fireworks together out of paper confetti!
WHERE IS THE SKIER? is designed to be modular and adaptable, existing in multiple forms depending on the context and audience.
Thanks to its modular design, WHERE IS THE SKIER? can be installed in theatre spaces or directly in schools, adapting its scale, layout, and level of participation to each environment.
It is a site-specific storytelling tool, a living and evolving structure that invites children to invent, build, imagine, and share.
Each performance creates a temporary community of children and adults — a collective, surreal investigation into creativity, curiosity, and play.
CREDITS: Created by Francesca Chiacchio
Performed by Francesca Chiacchio (montain guide)
AND Georges Le Gonidec or Marzia Dalfini (music)
and
BY Flore Herman OR Britt Roger Sas (Dutch version- translator)
Costumes, fabric designs by Francesca Chiacchio and Marzia Dalfini
SET DESIGN BY Georges Le Gonidec
Music by Georges Le Gonidec
Co-production: CC Westrand, nadine, CC 30, C-mine
Research and distribution with the support of ART BASICS for CHILDREN, 4HOOG, STORMOPKOMST, NGHE
With the FINANCIAL support of VG
PUBLIC TRY-OUTS
4.02.2024, Maison des Cultures et de la Cohésion Sociale, Molenbeek
24.03-2024, STORMOPKOMST Festival, De Warande, Turnhout
28.04.2024 STORMOPKOMST Festival, C-Mine, Genk
25-28 October 2025 Festival RODE HOLD, CC30, Leuven
pictures:
gallery 1 _ CAS-CO, Leuven 2025
pictures are © by Sarah_Verhoeven
