Birth of a new scenic language
The Compagnie La Boîte à sel seeks to create representation devices that allow spectators to transport themselves into its creations. We imagine open forms for this purpose – transversal to theater, music, puppetry, and associated arts – constructed like pathways for the projections and imagination of the audience.
Whether spectacular or installational, our projects engage scenography, sound, and techno-crafted objects, experimenting with renewed relationships with the public: sensory, immersive, interactive, or extended through spaces for meeting and play, each of them offers a global, generous, and striking experience.
BIRTH OF A NEW SCENIC LANGUAGE
In our creations, sound is a driving force of play; it is a concrete material just like the objects and materials with which our universes are built. In this approach, we call upon technology to invent our own tools in the service of dramaturgy.
For sound to be palpable, manipulable – like a unit of a construction game – Thomas Sillard, sound artist, invented a system of connected objects that fit in the hand: wireless speakers that react to movements, the first generation of which gave rise to the show "Block" with a setup composed of 60 of these objects.
This invention, born from the meeting of puppeteer Céline Garnavault's practice and Thomas's sound creator role, has paved the way for a new scenic language, constantly evolving, which we now call "techno-crafted sound object theater."
It is a theater made from objects that the company brings to life through technology and sound, in a way of thinking close to DIY, in the sense of making do with available means, empirically, with curiosity and sincere attention to the objects and what they offer us. The result is performances that are like experiences, blending puppetry arts, sound arts, theater, music, digital arts, and immersive installations to invite dialogue and play!
In 2021, for the show "Track", the company developed a second generation of sound modules, with an innovation that allows for live multi-diffusion of the voice of the human beatbox performer: L.O.S.
It was during the laboratories "Bad Block" that this research took a new turn, with a third generation of objects designed specifically to be activated and manipulated by the audience within collective tableaux, such as sound and light generators, musical instruments, or living entities interacting with their humans. With this unprecedented project, the company addresses adults and adolescents in a renewed performance format that emphasizes immersion, interaction, and sensory experience.
The future projects "La Tête", "Affects", and "Ouat what watt" will go even further in animation by working on an increasingly strong autonomy of the objects that will be endowed with movement.
* Fanny Lederlin "Eloge du bricolage - care of things, care of the living, and freedom to act" - Éditions puf
