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La Boîte à sel creates a theater with multiple sound objects, thus creating enchanting universes and original adventures. During the Noob festival, which runs until April 11 in Pont-Audemer, the company of Céline Garnavault and Thomas Sillard performs Bad Block and Mi-Pneu mi-punk and offers an interactive exhibition.
La Boîte à sel obviously enjoys performing its shows. The company of Céline Garnavault and Thomas Sillard also takes real pleasure in presenting the behind-the-scenes. "We want to show how the objects work," explains the puppeteer and director. The audience can manipulate them. This allows for a real dialogue with them. Furthermore, we want to desacralize what we do. Before any realization, there is an idea, research, a process, trial and error, failures."
During the Noob festival, which takes place until April 11 at L'Éclat in Pont-Audemer, La Boîte à sel has set up an exhibition of various objects, crafted and animated in a handmade way, such as the little train from Track, the meuh boxes 2.0 from Block, and all sorts of pieces to manipulate for fun. Four short films, made with the company's archives, also document the creative work.
An unbearable diva
There is also La Tête, locked in a wooden box, who comes out and hides like a cuckoo. You just need to press a big yellow button and animate her with two joysticks to talk to her. Invented by Thomas Sillard, this Tête is made of a metal frame, bolts, wires, two ping pong balls, a rubber jar lid, and a motor. With La Boîte à sel, it only takes a few pieces to create a creature full of life and strangely human.
And La Tête is not lacking in Mi-Pneu mi-punk, performed on Saturday, April 11 at the Micro-Folie. "When Thomas introduced her to me, she spoke and I found her irresistible," recalls Céline Garnavault, who manipulates her on stage. In her singing tour, La Tête stops in Pont-Audemer with her nine choristers, Les Bouches, to perform with her metallic voice a repertoire of irreverent pop-rock electro songs, written and composed by the prolific Kim Giani. She sings her doubts, her incomprehension of society, her love for sushi and buttered toast, announces her decision to run in the next presidential elections, confides her boredom in the midst of nature, and invites everyone to dance the disco.
Sometimes, this artist has a bit of a big head. She does not hesitate to forget her composer and to appropriate the writing of her album. La Tête can behave like a diva, punk, sparkling, and depressing. "She is sometimes unbearable and is not very kind to her audience and her choristers. But she has a great career and is very happy about it. It is true that she can sing anything," indicates Céline Garnavault. La Tête has a strong presence on stage and leads her concert with fervor.
