Press Review

They are currently designing a spectacular experience together with a multitude of partners: 90 connected sound objects, called blocks, and an audience of 30 people. Céline Garnavault, from her role as interpreter/director, and sound designer Thomas Sillard, engage here in the game of exchange between humans, around this laboratory of the concrete, from Cie La Boîte à sel, in the form of an immersive and interactive journey.

“If Jacques Tati had entered “the railways” rather than La Poste, Jour de fête would have been turned upside down, just think! And this great clown that we adore would surely have taken service in the ranks of the company La Boîte à sel, headlining a charming weekend: the second festival for young audiences organized at the Antre Peaux. Track, a show that crowns three years of work, marks the meeting of the rail and poetry, with here and there a touch of youthful groove like a mix of the frères Jacques and Massive Attack.Everything happens along a circuit where little elect...

“In our society, we tend to categorize everything, including what we consider to be alive or not. With our theater of connected sound objects, we listen to what weaves between the imagination of humans and objects.”The work developed by the company La Boîte à Sel is permeated by the question of animation in the strong sense, in the idea of “giving life” and bringing the living to the forefront, including in the most unexpected places. Practicing a theater of objects and plastic explorations, Céline Garnavault meets sound creator Thomas Sillard in 2016 and discovers that sou...

There is the show Track, created in November 2021 by Cie La Boîte à sel, which has been touring a lot since – and will be in Gironde between April and June 2022, at Carré-Colonnes, at Larural, at the Chahuts festival. A documentary, L’écho du circuit, has now been added, through which one becomes a privileged witness to the creation of the show, a very nice mediation tool. From the meeting between a creator and sound plastician, Thomas Sillard, and you Céline Garnavault, director and puppeteer, was born what you call a theater of connected sound objects within La Boîte à se...

“ There is a gift aspect: just imagine the look on your children's faces when they discover the mega electric train circuit from Track. It shines, it’s big, it’s full of colors, it’s fascinating! And here comes the station master, the only one who knows this little world: the small wagons, the big locomotive, the night trains, and even the ghost trains… With his voice, he operates the barriers, replays the whistle, the clattering, the engine, the announcements, the rhythm of the machines, all the railway noise… With a watchful eye, to ensure nothing goes off the rails, he i...

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