Residences
The Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix supports creation. It provides long-term support for national and international artists and companies, through residences for creation.
2023
Terreur
Compagnie Les yeux creux
(France)
Terror is first and foremost an image of absolute suffering. A free individual trapped in an indefinite space. A tumour in perpetual motion in the limbo of our nightmares. It’s a mixture of empathy and even identification, with no misplaced discomfort, but rather a shared feeling of understanding the suffering of this being on the stage, while finding it funny, sad, pitiful and sensitive all at the same time.
Creation FMTM 2023
2023
Parti en fumée
Othmane Moumen
(Belgium)
Using puppets and masks, Othmane Moumen brings his father, condemned by cigarettes, back to life. He traces his history, his immigration, from the late 60s to the present day. He discovers a man full of aspirations, contradictions and disappointments.
Creation march 2024
2023
L’aventure de l’écrasement
Granit Suspension
(France)
Blanche Lorentz writes shows to experiment with her thoughts. She loves theories, she loves concepts, but she needs something concrete. So she tries everything. For this creation, the puppeteer-author has been thinking out loud about mental load. She experimented with weight with over 200 kg of pebbles. It’s an imposition session. Crushing a body, yes, but with care.
Creation FMTM 2023
2023
Matinta
Grupo Girino
(Brazil)
2023
HEP ! HEP ! HEP !
Collectif F71
(France)
As a form of popular musical entertainment, karaoke draws on a shared culture, codes and social rituals. HEP! HEP! HEP! explores these issues in a hybrid, multi-disciplinary form that combines live music, drawing and manipulation, a documentary framework and a participatory, playful approach. An actress-singer, Camille Plocki, our kara-jockey, a dishevelled drummer, Alix Ewandé, and a draughtswoman, Clara Chotil, a ballerina in her own right, welcome the public to their ephemeral experimental karaoke. Their quest is to work together to renew the art of karaoke in a hand-crafted, whimsical way.
Creation 2023
2023
Orange au pays des angles
Les Enfants Sauvages
(France)
Show as part of the Autre chose est possible call for projects devised by Les Enfants Sauvages.
Creation 2024
2023
Foetus Project
Les Enfants de Ta Mère
(France)
Foetus Project is a journey into the depths of the common unconscious, our constructions of family and ‘how it should be’ and ‘how we’d like it to be’. How is it that a woman who does not wish to become a mother can, at times, feel obliged to justify her choices? To what extent is this a conscious, considered, controlled choice – in short, an individual choice, not the reproduction of a normative schema? Where do we stand on the relationship between femininity and motherhood?
Creation 2024
Presentation at FMTM 2025