The artists of the company L’Attraction Céleste offered several cultural escapes to passengers on three TLP Mobilités lines. The opportunity to embody the partnership between the network and the Parvis, with a cultural shuttle at 1€ on show evenings.
These are not passengers like the others who disembark at Place Verdun this Monday afternoon. Antoine, Servane, Marc and their instruments, the trio of Attraction Céleste, embarked and set off the TLP Mobilités network, offering songs and shows to passengers who were initially taken aback, then quickly pleasantly surprised. “I had to come down when they went up,” explains Pascale, who ultimately followed the artists throughout their journey to T2, T3 and T1. “I love the music and this atmosphere, it changes. I took the time to enjoy it. And I will even come back tomorrow with a friend.”
Because the trio, in partnership with the TLP agglomeration, Le Parvis and Keolis, is renewing this animation this Tuesday afternoon. “It’s full of different good times depending on the lines,” admits Antoine, one of the artists after having initiated a few dance steps, even at the bus stop. We adapt, we lower the volume or we play lullabies when strollers get on. The passengers react really well, especially as they stay long enough on board. It allows us to increase our intensity.”
Depending on the stops, the trio alternates musical pieces and small theatrical or circus numbers, like this miniature man-cannon who suddenly crosses the bus. “We need artists who are in this approach of taking the show where we don’t expect it, specifies Frédéric Esquerré, the director of the Parvis. It’s not obvious and quite rare to have acts adapted to this scene that is the bus, using the furniture, with this proximity, these interactions.”
Shuttles for 1€ for shows
Artistic interventions that seal the partnership between Keolis and the national stage of the Parvis. “Our partnership has lasted for ten years and does not stop at patronage,” explains Raphael Froger, director of Keolis. As part of our CSR approach, we have to set up mobility for culture, to allow people to go to the Parvis and return on performance evenings. 1 € which drops them off at the bus stop closest to their home, in the fifteen municipalities of the former Grand Tarbes.”
Pascal Claverie, mayor of Tarbes, and Gisèle Vincent, vice-president of the TLP agglomeration, the need “to move towards in terms of culture, for more shared and accessible shows. This is the meaning of this partnership. And these impromptus, which are invited into everyday journeys, show that the public transport in the urban area represents an economic, ecological and cultural advantage.”
