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Margareta Niculescu played a major role in the revival of puppetry from 1949 to 2013. She marked an entire era and generations of puppeteers trained under her. In her honour, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM), which she founded in 1987 alongside Jacques Félix, will take her name.

Show created at the end of June 2021, bringing to a close 3 years of study at ESNAM for the 12th graduating class (2018-2021). Under the direction of professional directors, the students lived the entire creative process (dramaturgy, scenography, construction, etc.) as closely as possible to professional conditions.

Show created at the end of June 2021, bringing to a close 3 years of study at ESNAM for the 12th graduating class (2018-2021). Under the direction of professional directors, the students lived the entire creative process (dramaturgy, scenography, construction, etc.) as closely as possible to professional conditions.

Twelve singular universes to discover in the first part of the IN, the official performances. Solos created in December 2020 as part of the final year of the curriculum by the students of the 12th ESNAM graduating class, revealing the quality of the performer and the artistic personality of each. Relationship to the environment, the human and animal condition, the place of women, disabilities… are at the heart of their intentions.

The Institute will be hosting in its theatre the first creation of Sayeh Sirvani, a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure de Arts de la Marionnette since 2019, and supported in the framework of a Tremplin residency in 2021.

The Prize for Educational Transmission will be awarded to a great puppetry master who has worked with young generations, and the Prize for Creation/Experimentation to a young artist or company who has innovated artistic languages, practices and aesthetic forms in the puppetry arts.

For this season’s festival, the book fair will take up quarters in the lobby of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette.