Flood

The result of a two-week workshop in Charleville-Mézières and Stuttgart, Flood blends two worlds: dance theater (Nicole Mossoux) and object theater (Agnès Limbos). Through improvisation and personal exploration, students from both schools investigated the extension of movement into matter. They sought to decipher the signals that matter sends back, as well as the dynamics of power and connection between the living and the inanimate. Ultimately, the group moves as a single body in which all parts are interconnected.

Through the theme of water, Flood resonates with the Face à Gaïa – Lebensraum Rhein program (September 2025 – July 2026), led by the Institut Français in Stuttgart.

Laboratory and direction: Agnès Limbos and Nicole Mossoux
Translator and assistant: Anniek Vetter
Performers: ESNAM students, Laïs Argis, Anatole Aubin, Séraphine Boucreux, Oscare De Conninck, Isa Dehostingue, Ivan Duval, Jordi Gallizia, Elsa Léger, Nicolas Longuet, Héloïse Marsal, Nayara Martins Soares, Matteo Nifosi, Lucile Seilaz, Klara Van Rooyen, Anatole Verger-Bernard
HMDK students: Anne Bellmann, Lourdes Pino Fels, Silvan Hahn, Lucile Hoffmann, Hannah Huiss, Annie Krausche, Lal Lucie Kreusch, Ronja Rienecker, Vito Da Silva Prechtl, Paul Steggemann, Ruth Süpple
Soundtrack by Patrick Bonté: Lighting by Agnès Limbos, Nicole Mossoux, and Stephanie RinkeCe projet, porté conjointement par l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM) et le département de théâtre de marionnettes de la Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HMDK), a bénéficié du soutien de l’Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse/ Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk (OFAJ/DFJW) et de l’Institut Français de Stuttgart. 

This project, jointly organized by the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM) and the Department of Puppet Theater at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HMDK), received support from the Franco-German Youth Office/ Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk (OFAJ/DFJW) and the Institut Français in Stuttgart.