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, and international and cultural exchange.
These collaborations strive towards new forms, inventive use of space, of language, of light to create new perspectives.
The company collages 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 which performed in 2005 & 2006 in Paris and then traveled to 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 the French 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 working on the cycle House Calls. Written and directed by De Vito, this theatrical installation is adapted to its host space. In 2007 it was presented at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, in association with London’s Royal College of Art.
In August of 2008 House Calls will be produced at Die Station in Neufelden, Austria and in October House Calls will be at The Space in London, England, and in November the show will return to Paris.
In 2008 the company began production of Flappers! a French musical comedy about Prohibition-era Detroit.