The partners host several innovative shows involving interactions between puppetry and the digital arts. The aim is to promote the work of established artists, and to provide support and guidance to emerging artists.
The story of a little girl who finds herself caught in the middle of the war. When puppet manipulation intertwines with live video projections and virtual drawings.
The Sky Above Me is a new work by Tin Grabnar, an established director who combines elements of dance, improvisation, modern puppetry, magic, performance and visual arts in his work. It explores a wide range of different digital art strategies. Tin Grabnar’s award-winning show Somewhere Else successfully combines the puppeteer’s mindset and the use of modern technology.
There is no translation available.Création / performance réunissant marionnette géante, corps en mouvements, musique et projection. L Louise est inspirée de la vie et l’oeuvre de Louise Bourgeois.
PD4 is a simulacrum, a walk along an extensible algorithmic infinity of alternate reality, testing the borders of its own perception and self-awareness.
This multimedia show with live video projections, rich musical image, two thousand animal images and scale models puts Hitchcock’s film The Birds into a new context.
From childish melodies to bewitching litanies, surrounded by an orchestra of about fifteen little skeletons musicians struggling on their instruments, a woman - Antinéa - reveals herself. A creation at the confluence of various artistic fields: theatre, music, puppetry and digital arts. It is a sound and visual proposal around Antinea and an orchestra of 17 computer-controlled automaton-musician-skeletons.
In a creepy abandoned amu- sement park, a man is wandering among weird creatures, contaminated by an ecologi- cal disater; meanwhile, inside an electricity box, a recluse is trying to survive what is lur- king out there. The audience is trapped into an immersive supernatural experience, unsure of what they may have seen, felt, heard or imagined...
Horizons is a musical and visual journey. This story, set on an extraordinary Danish Island in the North Sea, is told via four electro-accoustic compositions and live mapping. Life there follows the waves: in the past they left various treasures on the shores, now they bring hordes of languid tourists.
In The Alchemy of Words , three artists from different disciplines including puppetry, movie and music try to capture the enigma of Arthur Rimbaud and what it means to be a pioneer. Played in his native town of Charleville-Mézières, the show is an immersive experience recreating with subtlety the imagery from Rimbaud's poems.
There is no translation available.Autour d’une scène circulaire, une vingtaine de peluches assises sur un quart du gradin attendent un spectacle de "On" qui va (peut-être) commencer. Les trois-quarts restants du gradin accueillent le public "réel". Les voix des peluches vont exprimer tout haut ce qu’un public pense habituellement tout bas. Dans ce jeu de miroir prêtant à la réflexion et à l’auto-dérision, les spectateurs de chiffon, face à nous, font face au public et le questionnent sur sa posture.…
A dancer meets robots, animated body parts and the artificial intelligence ToMoMi. Neither are human or animal, nor are they pure objects. They are alive, infused with magic. The self-made sentient creatures become mirrors of ourselves, reflecting our loss of humanity, while performers slowly turn into cyborgs.
A young woman stands in a room she has never seen before. She sits at HER table, on HER chair, not in her room. Little does she know that she has already been here, in this mysterious room without view or exit, this room she tries to define but which seems alive. Evidently, something is happening in this room. Maybe something grave.
The Green is slang for “the stage” and also refers to the green screens used to create digital special effects. This modern show, set in a shopping mall, questions consumerism through the use of video projections, spatialized sound, puppetry and 19th century magic tricks.