Press Review

Céline Garnavault, artistic co-director, and Kristina Deboudt, production director, of the company Boite à sel, in Bordeaux.Why did you decide to profoundly change your working methods?Kristina Deboudt: The company has been contracted since 2022. We are all intermittent workers, and we have chosen to have very specific mission posts to have experienced and specialized profiles.Celine Garnavault: For three years, the company has experienced a change in scale with many more tours. We are going to face a growth crisis, with the risk of burnout that can be associated with a tim...

“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...

Imagining new times for creation, transforming the relationship, producers-distributors.. This priority project cannot be initiated without proactive public policies.

C é l i n e G a r n a v a u l t Actress, director, Compagnie La Boîte à sel, in Bordeaux“Live performance is fragile and poorlytreated, but it will never lose its power of resistance, freedom, struggles, and poetry. There will always be shared shivers and powerful moments that make an audience vibrate, feel alive, and be a community. No one will stop it from sowing art and thought inside, outside, everywhere! So whatever the future holds, may it be supportive, may it care for those who have fallen or find themselves even further away, may it be attentive, humble, generous,...

The artists experienced the confinement very differently,some having the opportunity to maintain the link with creation.For others, the economic urgency was a hindrance. Passed the shock of the announcement of theclosure of cultural establishments, the artists did nothave the time to let themselves fallinto a state of despair.Despite the uncertainty of the months tocome, those who have a creation had to deployall their energy to continue imagining theirproject remotely with their teams. The administrativeburden and the impossibility of accessingcreation spaces also, for man...