Bordelais at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres 🎭
The event attracts more than 155,000 visitors each year (credit: Fredéric Desmesures).
The Bordeaux company La Boîte à sel represents the region at the 23rd World Festival of Puppet Theatres (FMTM), organized starting today in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes.
80 international companies
- Every 2 years since 1961, this event highlights puppet arts and live performance in Europe.
- Until September 28, 80 French and international companies will present 91 shows (between €9 and €21) in several cultural spaces in the city.
- The troupe La Boîte à sel will defend Bad Block with 5 performances.
- “It’s an interactive and sensory show during which the audience is invited to manipulate translucent cubes that come to life,” specifies its creator Céline Garnavault.
- “The idea is to revisit the listening of their sensations while allowing themselves to be surprised by the place that their interiority, intimacy, and imagination can take in this collective experience.”
Immersive experience
- Founded in 2000, the troupe led by Céline Garnavault and Thomas Sillard stands out for its hybrid theater combining puppetry, sound, digital arts, and music.
- “Each creation involves living objects and a sensitive scenography to offer an immersive, interactive, and generous experience.”
- Created in October 2024 for the International Arts Festival of Bordeaux Métropole (FAB), Bad Block will be presented in Brussels in November, in Tresses in April, and in Poitiers next May.
- “And we are preparing for October a musical work, LA TÊTE, a geek song tour for a machine that is half tire, half punk.”
- Their news can be followed here.
Did you know?
- The name of the company is a nod to the salt box, the counter located in the hall of theaters and operas where spectators come to collect their tickets.
- This name itself comes from the resuscitation salts that were placed there by the attending physician to revive overly emotional spectators in the 19th century.
