La Spirale d’Or is a Paris-based company of international artists from the fine and performing arts.
Founder and artistic director Shelly De Vito created La Spirale d’Or to encourage collaboration among artists of various disciplines as they delve into aesthetic and technical pursuits, educational possibilities, international and cultural exchange.
These collaborations strive towards new forms, inventive use of space, of language, of light to create new perspectives.
The artists collage different cultures and media to push beyond the boundaries of traditional and established concepts of performance and art.
La Spirale d’Or refers to the golden section, the perfect proportion found in the spiral of a nautilus shell. As artists we seek similar harmony in our collaborations.
Since its creation in 2005, La Spirale d’Or has produced several plays. Its first production was 6×5, a French play written by Shelly De Vito. It performed in 2005 & 2006 in Paris and then New York where video-designed subtitles were added for the show’s run in the historic Henry Street Settlement. La Spirale d’Or was awarded a grant from La Spedidam for the creation of 6×5’s musical score by composer Quentin Sirjacq.
In 2006, the jury of La Biennale de la jeune création in Houilles, France invited La Spirale d’Or to perform De Vito’s second play La Manipulée.
In 2007 the La Spirale d’Or co-produced the French musical Chekhov Jazz, an evening of music based on Chekhov’s plays, written and directed by Rébecca Mourguye, which toured in Paris and New York.
Later in 2007 La Spirale d’Or began producing the cycle House Calls. Written and directed by De Vito, this theatrical installation is adapted to its host spaces. Among other sites, it was presented at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, in association with London’s Royal College of Art.
In August of 2008, La Spirale d’Or began its collaboration with Heim.Art in the co-production of Land in Sicht - The Grand Prix der Pendler at Die Station in Neufelden, Austria. This version of Heim.Art’s annual Land in Sicht introduced the creative energies of Joachim Eckl and Elke Richly to La Spirale d’Or.
In October of that same year House Calls was performed at The Space in London.
Continuing this collaboration, in March of 2009, ReCalling opened The Space’s Entreprise Festival of Environmental & Experimental Theatre. Also in March was the debut of …leavesdropping… a site-specific and environmentally staged show exploring the scenic zeugma. …leavesdropping… was performed at the Southwark Playhouse.
For Heim.Art’s Wellengang in 2009, Shelly De Vito was asked to write a play on the theme of water. From this sprung Babbling Brooke… The play was translated by Elke Richly and performed in German at Die Station. It incorporated the site-specific installations of James Porter and Joachim Eckl.
Currently in creation is Le Syndrome Rottweiler a French play for four actors.