In March, Research residency on the contributions of puppeteer training to actor training

Actress, puppeteer, director and teacher, Alexandra Vuillet explores hybridization.
She will be in a Research residency at the Documentation center of the Pôle, from 16 to 27 March, to continue her work which questions the links between the training of the puppeteer and that of the actor.

The main objective of this project is to design modules adapted to the training of actors.
At the crossroads of theatre and puppetry, this project proposes to integrate certain fundamentals of puppeteering into the training of actors.  By drawing on the intrinsic resources of puppetry, theatre has the opportunity to address a number of challenges: ecological and political issues, the place of the subject and its representation, the question of performance venues, and the opening up of theatre to multidisciplinary practices. These are multiple issues that need to be taken into account from the outset of professional training.

The duration of this research is organised according to the model proposed by the DGCA’s art research programme, lasting two years. Work began in July 2025 and will end in July 2027.

Trained at the conservatory in theatre and puppetry with Emilie Valantin (Théâtre du Fust) and Alain Recoing (Théâtre aux Mains Nues), Alexandra Vuillet co-founded the Compagnie Arnica, with which she collaborated until 2010. Holder of a State Diploma in theatre teaching, she taught regularly from 2011 to 2021 at conservatories in Paris and to students at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette.

She created MuPPet QuEEn and Le Lab to develop her research and creative activities.

She collaborates with other artists either as an assistant or director, or as a puppeteer for puppet theatre with the Théâtre de Romette, Cie Boom, Les bas-bleus, AMK, La Magouille, L’arpenteuse cie, Chiendent Théâtre for opera with La Co[oépra]tive, or for other artists with Colombian puppeteer Hector Loboguerrero Gongora for the Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève, and with choreographers Lila Deridj and Anne-Catherine Nicoladzé.