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.
2025/2026
Cœur doux.
Bois dormant company
(France)
Cœur doux. is a choreographic, musical and puppet performance for one performer (Léo Gras) and one musician (Aria De La Celle). An intimate and political response to rape, it explores the reconstruction of the traumatised body. Somewhere between singing, manipulation and trance, the piece conjures up dolls, complaints and gestures of reparation, transforming pain into a ritual of resilience and celebrating the fragile power of the living.
2025/2026
Petite Sœur
La Ponctuelle company
(France)
Petite Sœur (Little Sister) is a solo object theatre performance for non-dedicated spaces and small theatres, aimed at pupils form 6th and 5th class . It follows Betty and her three friends as they start sixth class. The school next door is flooded, so they have to take in the neighbouring pupils and find ways of sharing their space and resources. Through this fable, this object theatre show for the classroom questions our relationship with others and with borders.
2025/2026
Le Serment du Guéridon
Bakelite and Hop Hop Hop companies
(France)
Co-creation Cie Bakélite / Cie HopHopHop – Olivier and Christine, one Cartesian and the other crazy, plunge into the depths of the paranormal, into all sorts of inexplicable experiences. And so much the better! It opens up your brain and gives you a different view of the world. Christine draws on her memories of her youth, rich in extra-ordinary experiences, and Olivier on his engines and other mechanised objects to write a fiction that is both dark and marvellous.
2025/2026
The Dragon
Tricktreck Theatre
(Estonia)
Based on the book “Where is the Dragon?” by Leo Timmers.
2025/2026
Cramée. Une petite archéologie d’un drame photographique
Les Nouveaux ballets du Nord Pas de Calais
(France)
Inspired by the work of photographer Diane Arbus. The play begins with the end of the story: the photographer’s suicide, and continues in a great rewinding movement, like an investigation, without words.
To achieve this, puppeteer Cristina Iosif sets in motion images and puppets taken from a body of photographs that we developed with photographer Lucie Pastureau, inspired by the work of Diane Arbus and made up of minoritised bodies.
2025/2026
DC Smith (working title)
La Cancrerie company
(France)
DC SMITH is an object theatre and clowning project, an investigation into the concept of “archaeo-chirurgynécology” that this creature invents. By orchestrating a dig inside her body, she will discover the traces and vestiges that live inside her. What follows is a plunge into a strange, poetic and puppet-like intimacy that, somewhere between the trashy and the gentle, takes a look at the consequences of trauma linked to medical abuse and sexist and sexual violence.
2025/2026
Fragile(s)
Une Tribu collectif
(Belgium)
Fragil(e)s explores the invisible ties that hold us together. Human-sized puppets, string puppets, rod puppets, sock puppets: a sensitive and virtuoso chain of interdependence, on the borderline between manipulation by sight, looking through the eyes and the power of the fragile.