Gabriel Herman Priquet

Training objectives :

• First semester show creation
  The educational objective is above all to go through the creative process. To that end, we will rely on tools used in Ateuchus for our creations.

• The puppet object as a link
  The puppet object as a link, the relationship as a puppetry practice
  At Ateuchus, our creative productions as well as our practice as puppeteers are centred on the puppet as an object of connection.
  An object of connection through which those who watch it, as well as those who move it, enter into a relationship by participating in its animation. In so doing, the puppet becomes a sounding board, a meeting point for their inner selves.
  The puppet is this link between worlds, this object that we put between us and that creates a playing space, a space where inner selves are shared.
  How, through this puppet-object, do we enter into a relationship with these inner selves, with these private singularities, the singularities of those who are watching as well as that of those who are making it move?
  How do these relationships set into motion not only the object itself but also everything resonating through it? How does this performance object open up a space resonating with the inner self? In what way does entering into a relationship with this object, whether as an audience member or as an actor, mean participating in its animation? In what way does this object, placed in this space between worlds, bring to light values, common emotions, a common ground for those who animate it?
  These questions underlie our practice as puppeteers and it is through them that we will approach this workshop-encounter.
  In order to bring into view a range of these relationships between performance and the inner self, we will begin by making use of the articulations of our own body, the articulations that link it to the world.
  Then, going over those that we can weave with other bodies, living and inert, as a group and individually, step by step, we will play with the distinction between animating and manipulating and will approach the vision of the puppet and its particular language on which Ateuchus bases its creative work.

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