Compagnie La Boîte à Sel

À Oloron-Sainte-Marie, the collaboration has been particularly fruitful: laboratories and performances of La Tête, dissemination of Track and its associated mediation Le Ptit Track, dissemination of Bad Block — coproduced by the Espace Jéliote — in the highlight time Au fil de la marionnette 2024, support for the research project DGCA À l'écoute des objets, creation residency of Affects — coproduced by the Espace Jéliote —with a public meeting, and a connection with the Béarnaise artist Natacha Sansoz who has since joined the project. A seminar of the company has also been hosted. It is also at the invitation of Oloron that the exhibition In the factory of La Boîte à sel — coproduced by the Espace Jéliote —was created, which has since circulated well beyond the Pyrénées. Affects will be created there on November 10, 2026.

À Vendôme, the company has been pampered, it has led a laboratory around La Tête during the biennale With or without wire 2025, before playing La Tête and Bad Block — coproduced by the Hectare —,then in season Le Grand Chut with its mediation Le Ptit Chut. L'Hectare has also supported the DGCA research project À l'écoute des objets and hosted part of the exhibition In the factory of La Boîte à sel. The CNMa will host a creation residency of Affects — coproduced by the Hectare — in September 2026 as well as its performances for the 2027 biennale.

À Gradignan, a city close to the living place of Céline and Thomas who have become resident artists, it is a continuous presence that has settled naturally. Numerous laboratories over time have been hosted, as well as impromptus of La Tête, shared seasonal presentations, two residencies of Bad Block — coproduced by the Theater of the 4 seasons — with public outings and performances, and numerous laboratories and team seminars. the company also leads with the T4S an artistic and cultural education project around sound with 3 Gironde schools in 2026. The exhibition In the factory of La Boîte à sel,  was also presented in November 2024. A creation residency of Affects — coproduced by the Theater of the 4 seasons — will take place in October-November 2026, for performances in 2027. 

During the 23/25 and 24/25 seasons, À Rennes, the association with the Théâtre Lillico (35) for allowed to present Le Grand Chut and Block to the Breton public and to have meetings during its festival Marmaille.

During the 2022/23 season, La Boîte à sel was in territorial artistic residency in Tourville-Sur-Arques in Seine Maritime with DSN - Dieppe National Scene and Dieppe Maritime: five weeks of research laboratory conducted in parallel by the artists and by the children of the whole school on autonomous living objects. A future young audience show resulting from this research is planned for the 2029/30 season:  "OUAT (what watt)" 

From 2017 to 2019, La Boîte à sel and Très Tôt Théâtre - Quimper - Conventioned stage of Quimper, shared a large artistic and participatory project around sound that resulted in May 2019 in the creation of the show: "Le Grand Chut.". The fruit of a successful companionship, this show continued its dissemination in France until it reached 70 performances at the end of the 24/25 season. 

From 2015 to the end of 2017, La Boîte à sel was in companionship with the Théâtre Ducourneau d'Agen - Conventioned theater and voice. The opportunity to create the show "Revers" and to carry out two artistic and participatory projects in the Agen territory:"Gallery", two years of exchanges between the plastic artist Rouge Hartley, Céline Garnavault and the residents of the Montanou neighborhood of Agen, punctuated by collages of portraits - resulting from these meetings - in the heart of the neighborhood, and the edition of a memory book. And "Smaf team", a radio documentary, imagined, designed, and recorded with young college students and the social center Saint Exupery of Agen.

In TRACK (2021), a show for young audiences, we invite the audience to get close to a giant train circuit, to listen differently, to physically feel the music, the space, the movements of the objects, and to be surprised by the wonderful that can arise from any tiny event.

In BLOCK (2018), a show for young audiences, we tell the city as a constantly changing landscape. The scenography of the 60 sound and light objects allows for multi-spatialization and visualization of these sound landscapes: it is both decor, sensory cocoon, but also a game engine and a true partner of the performer.

You give a great part to research in your work?

Totally! Each creation is born from a long process. We design everything from A to Z, often over several years. For À l’écoute des objets, our Franco-Quebec research project laureate 2025 of the DGCA, we work with three researchers and a mechanotrician!

What are the other news from the company?

We celebrate in October 2025 the release of a concert available in 2 versions: LA TÊTE . HALF-TIRE HALF-PUNK accessible from 6 years, and LA TÊTE . UNFILTERED, for adults and teens . In this musical format LA TÊTE, new techno-hacked creature of Thomas Sillard, is surrounded by 9 robotic gaping mouths as choristers, with a setlist of original songs composed specifically by the prolific Kim Giani. The young audience version of this creation is supported in production by SACEM.

We are preparing our future creation AFFECTS (November 26) which will mix robotics, sound arts, theater, and contemporary animated forms. In AFFECTS, emotions will be materialized in an assembly of hacked, soldered, tangible, vulnerable, ambiguous objects, sometimes funny and often clumsy, they will raise the question of cohabitation with what burdens us, overflows us, but also shapes us.

An English version of BAD BLOCK will go on tour starting June 2026 (Czech Republic and Slovenia), indeed the laureate 2025 of the PARI! path supported by the Ministry of Culture and the French Institute, the company is working to develop its artistic presence internationally.

Our shows BLOCK and TRACK continue their tours with beautiful highlights like the Théâtre du Châtelet in October 2025 for TRACK.

We also created an interactive exhibition last season, IN THE FACTORY OF LA BOÎTE À SEL, which is scheduled in parallel with our shows, this season in Albi and at the Noob festival in Pont-Audemer.