AFFECTS

Theater, robotics, sound arts, and contemporary animated forms / All audiences from 15 years old

  • By : Céline Garnavault & Thomas Sillard
  • Staging : Céline Garnavault
  • Creation : November 2026
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What would happen if our emotions took shape in front of us? If we could touch them, observe them, accompany them? What impulses, what care, what responsibilities would that require?

In Affects, emotions are materialized into an assembly of crafted electronic objects, welded, tangible, vulnerable, ambiguous, sometimes funny and often awkward, raising the question of cohabitation with what burdens us, overwhelms us, but also shapes us.

At the crossroads of a conference-demonstration on well-being in livestream and an esoteric tutorial, Affects diverts the codes of personal development — with humor, tenderness, and a pinch of science fiction — to question emotional sovereignty, the narrativization of trauma, and collective care gestures. It is neither about miraculous healing nor spectacular catharsis, but about a slow taming, a sincere cohabitation with what resides within.

In the algorithmic age, where attention to well-being is normalized, quantified, and often transformed into a duty of self-optimization, we propose another path: that of "living-with." Affects thus resists the injunctions to emotional hygiene and proposes a politics of care based on solidarity, acceptance of flaws, and love for what still trembles.


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Team
  • Play, text, and staging / Céline Garnavault
  • Sound creation and co-design of objects / Thomas Sillard
  • Assistant director / Léa Carton de Grammont
  • Associated researcher (robotics in the performing arts) / Julie-Michèle Morin
  • Associated researcher (puppet arts) / Dinaïg Stall
  • Associated researcher (performing arts) / Emma Mérabet
  • Co-design and management of objects / Nicolas Guichard
  • Scenic collaboration, objects & general management / Olivier Droux
  • Object design collaboration / Natacha Sansoz
  • Collaboration on acting and movement / Julie Coutant
  • Light creation / Chloé Agag
  • Videographer / Luka Merlet
  • Costumes / Caroline Di Paolo
  • Hair and makeup / in progress
  • Magic consulting / in progress
  • Production manager / Kristina Deboudt
  • Production-distribution officer / France Fiévet
  • Production-logistics officer / Jessica Bodard
  • General management company / Raphaël Môles
  • Accounting and salaries / Marie Rossard
  • Press officer / Anne Quimbre

Production

PRODUCTION

  • Cie La Boîte à sel

COPRODUCTION - in progress

  • L’Hectare - National Center for Puppetry in VENDÔME (81)
  • L’espace Jéliote - National Center for Puppetry - OLORON SAINTE MARIE (64)
  • Le Théâtre des 4 saisons - Scène conventionnée de GRADIGNAN (33)
  • Les 3 T - Scène conventionnée de CHÂTELLERAULT (86)
  • IDDAC - Artistic diffusion agency of Gironde

PROVISION OF REHEARSAL ROOM

  • UQÀM - University of Quebec in MONTREAL

PARTNERSHIPS

  • The FORMES Group - UQAM which brings together researchers and artists in Montreal to work on processes, writings, relationships, and puppetry forms.
  • Atelier TRAM-e - Oloron Sainte Marie

  • LABLAB - Digital experimentation hub - Lyon

  • Fablab Bordeaux Digital School.

SUPPORTS

  • La Compagnie La Boîte à sel is conventioned by the Ministry of Culture - DRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine and supported in its operations by the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region, the City of Bordeaux, and the Department of Gironde

Diffusion

LABORATORIES 22/23

  • July 3 to 7, 2023 > UQAM - Université du Québec MONTRÉAL

LABORATORIES 23/24

  • July 17 to 28, 2024 > UQAM - Université du Québec MONTRÉAL

LABORATORIES 24/25

  • February 17 to 21, 2025 > Théâtre des 4 saisons / GRADIGNAN (33)
  • February 24 to 26, 2025 > Atelier Le hoop - LABLAB – Digital Factory / LYON
  • April 15 to 18, 2025 > Atelier Le hoop - LABLAB / LYON
  • April 22 to 25, 2025 > Théâtre des 4 saisons / GRADIGNAN (33)
  • May 7 to 10, 2025 > Atelier Le hoop - LABLAB / LYON

CREATION RESIDENCIES 25/26

  • August 25 to September 5, 2025 > Espace Jéliote / CNMa d’OLORON SAINTE MARIE (64)
  • January 26 to February 6, 2026 > Les 3 T - CHATELLERAULT (86)
  • Spring 2026 > Research for an immersion residency (high school, community center, etc.)

CREATION RESIDENCIES 26/27

  • September 2026 > L’Hectares / CNMa de VENDÔME (81)
  • October 2026 > Théâtre des 4 saisons - GRADIGNAN (33)
  • Creation November 2026