Post-graduation integration
The Graduate residencies aim to support the professional integration of recent graduates from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette – Margareta Niculescu (ESNAM), by helping them develop their first artistic projects.
These residencies are open to ESNAM graduates within three years of receiving their diploma, working in the field of puppetry. The discipline may be approached in all its forms and intersections with other art forms.
The residency is intended to support all stages of the creative process, from writing and dramaturgy to stage research, lighting and sound design, construction, and rehearsals.
2025/2026 Graduate residencies
Luana Montabonel (ESNAM 13), La Capillotractée company, for the creation of a long form of the show J’habite dans une grosse dame.
This show confronts the way other people look at large bodies that are constantly being monstrified. The question of the norm for bodies that have to blend in with everyday settings and equipment, and society’s desire to point the finger at those who can’t conform. I want to show the difference between the reality of these bodies and their representations. So how to be a woman. Fat. Today?
Cie Capillotractée
Gwenaelle Guillebot de Nerville (ESNAM 13), Spatule company, for the creation of the show Une histoire rigolote de la culotte (menstruelle).
In the not-too-distant future, despite budget cuts and government censorship of universities, a rather shy and chaotic young researcher offers a lecture on the history of menstrual panties to a clandestine audience. He/she manages to get through his lecture, despite his inner dilemmas and the impostor syndrome that screams at him/her, until the menstrual products he refers to emerge to tell their story from their own point of view.
Spatule company on Facebook