Residences
The Creation residencies support the development and production of artistic works by professional puppeteers with diverse aesthetics and artistic languages.
These residencies are intended for professional puppetry artists. The discipline may be explored in all its forms, including its intersections with other art forms.
The residency is designed to support artists throughout the entire creative process—from writing and stage research to lighting, sound design, puppet construction, and rehearsals.
Projects selected for the 2025/2026 Creation residencies:
- – « Cœur doux » – Cie Bois dormant (France)
- – « Petite Sœur » – Cie La Ponctuelle (France)
- « Le Serment du Guéridon » – Cies Bakelite and Hop Hop Hop (France)
- – « The Dragon » – Tricktreck Theatre (Estonia)
- – « Cramée. Une petite archéologie d’un drame photographique » – Les Nouveaux ballets du Nord Pas de Calais (France)
- – « DC Smith » – Cie La Cancrerie (France)
- – « Fragile(s) » – Une Tribu collectif (Belgium)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’.

2024
ALCOOLIQUE !
Compagnie Méandres
(France)
Alcohol is a sensitive subject for many people. So Aurélie Hubeau has chosen two texts by a great writer and a great alcoholic: Duras of course! Who better than her to put the words (evils) of alcohol into words? The audience’s sensory perception is a major component of the production: a miniature puppet emerges from the darkness and moves feverishly on a string above the void, torn between stopping drinking and drinking again.
Creation July 2025
Presentation at FMTM 2025