Residences

The Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix supports creation. It provides long-term support to artists and companies at national and international level, through residences for creation.

© Cie NoMORPa

2024

Habiter

NoMORPa
(France)

Residence in a crèche
A Traveller arrives with her kit house on her back and gradually sets up a house, a sort of itinerant refuge in full view of the children present. She builds her hut in full view of and in collaboration with the children, using the various materials that make it up: wooden strips, fabric, Plexiglas, paint, etc.

Creation March 2025

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© DR

2024

Semeurs de panique

Elvis Alatac
(France)

Based on a text by Mathilde Souchaud. The world is burning, temperatures are exploding, farmers are committing suicide in despair, and a young girl called Jo, accompanied by Gentiane, her pet frog, set off in search of a magical deer capable of regenerating what has died. They will battle against Despéranda, who has led the adults to abandon this earthly paradise to greed and destruction.

Creation 2025

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© Juliette Lamas

2024

Aquarium Fraîche Fontaine

Fléchir le vide en avant
(France)

Aquarium Fraîche Fontaine is a science-fiction show that explores the possibilities of a lesbo-queer mythology that begins as follows: El lives on earth. El is human. One day, a rift rips through the space-time above her town. El is sucked into it. The rift spits her out over Aquariae 2-F, a sensual, erotic and intriguing island-planet (…)

Creation 2026

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© Atipik

2024

Notos le souffle du vent

Compagnie Atipik
(France)

Residence in a crèche
Installation in 3 parts-3 breaths for young audiences. The residency will be an opportunity to test a music and image installation based on the theme of wind, breath, lightness and the elements. An ecological fable for the little ones, accompanied by a cello.

Creation spring-summer 2025

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© Florence Garcia

2024

Nos conquêtes

Avant l’Averse
(France)

An object theatre trilogy about the story of those who don’t have power. Who are on the wrong side: the dominated, the invisible, and who have fought to obtain better situations. It’s a story of good news. The first part will tell the story of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Creation July 2024

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© Aline Chappron

2024

Déplacer les montagnes

Fanny Bouffort
(France)

Residence in a crèche
Inspired by a geological fault, this miniature landscape installation is an invitation to pass beneath the earth’s crust, to slip into the crack, to compose, assemble, make and unmake the landscape, to literally move mountains. To cross the landscape is to transform it, to modify it, to leave a trace of one’s passage.
 The installation is made up of dozens of handmade objects in chestnut, cherry, pine and beech; inspired by the shape of Scandinavian runes, they represent humanist ideas and concepts, interlocking, dissociating and assembling ad infinitum.

Creation autumn 2024

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© Mahtab Mokhber

2024

Rabāb

Ouest of center
(France – Iran)

Rabāb is a collective creation, between Mahtab Mokhber and the Ouest of center company, around a human-sized puppet, manipulated by two actresses. This creation delves into the reservoir of our memory and tells of the forgotten women of our lives, remembering their names and their gestures. Invisible but ever-present women who surround us, give birth to us, and are part of who we are.

Creation 2024

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© Antoine Tracou

2024

Ginette Guirolle

Les Rémouleurs
(France)

Ginette Guirolle, full of gouaille, takes the zinc. Her whole life unfolds before our eyes, almost like a documentary: the portrait of a woman who became a young girl during the 2nd World War, a woman, a wife then a lover, then one day an orphan, and another day a mother then a grandmother… A life. The humanity of the character lies in her naivety, even in her revolt against the occupation, against anti-Semitism, racism and death. That’s the beauty of Ginette, this universal, timeless, necessary point of revolt that allows us to find common sense in the intimacy of bars.

Creation June 2024

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© NoS CRAETHERA

2024

L’Isle aux Singes

Nos Craethera
(France)

L’Isle aux Singe, the reverie of a mysterious music group, plunges into the Western imagery of monkeys and shares its journey with us. A musical, hallucinatory and sometimes grotesque ritual, L’Isle aux Singes uses a protean language borrowed from ethology, cinema and pop culture to invite us to return to the wild, where humans make way and observe.

Creation January 2025
Presentation at FMTM 2025

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© DR

2024

L’Histoire d’un·e Autre

En verre et contre tout
(France)

For this new production, the company is tackling the construction of the ‘Other’, the invention of the ‘savage’, which combines human exhibitions and scientific research into ‘races’. Using shadow and projection theatre, paper theatre and slam poetry, the show questions the legacy of this vision of the Other.

Creation 2025
Residency supported by the Agence Culturelle Grand Est under the heading of ‘Cooperation Residencies’.

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