AFFECTS - Creation 2026

Theater, contemporary animated forms, robotics, and sound arts / Adults-Teens

By

Céline Garnavault & Thomas Sillard

Director

Céline Garnavault

Creation

10 November 2026

Season Calendar

AFFECTIVE RESONANCES

What would happen if our emotions took shape? If we could touch them, observe them, accompany them? What impulses, what care, what responsibilities would that require? This is the question at the heart of Affects (creation on November 10, 2026), the new creation by Céline Garnavault and Thomas Sillard, who continue their innovative work at the intersection of contemporary puppet forms, robotics, and sound arts.

An engaged performance that makes our emotions a playground and a site of collective resistance. In Affects, emotions are materialized in an assembly of tangible, vulnerable, ambiguous, funny, or awkward objects. They question our cohabitation with what burdens us, overwhelms us, but also shapes us.

A message that resonates today. In a world obsessed with performance and individual well-being, Affects subverts the codes of personal development — with humor, tenderness, and a touch of science fiction — to propose another path: that of a "living-with" based on solidarity, acceptance of flaws, and love for what still trembles.

A hybrid form. On stage, an actress explores and shares her emotions, materialized by about thirty animated robotic and sound forms, of all sizes, true sculptures of horsehair and felted wool. This strange, noisy, and unpredictable herd will gradually transform the one who thought she was presenting them.


Photos

Videos

Press

Le Piccolo - Cyrille Planson - Mars 2026 - En prise avec ses émotions. La compagnie La Boîte à sel a choisi de donner une forme, de la vie et du mouvement, à ses émotions profondes. Un projet à l'adresse des ados et des adultes.

Read More

Production

PRODUCTION

  • Cie La Boîte à sel

COPRODUCTION - in progress

  • L’Hectare - National Center for Puppetry of VENDÔME (81)
  • L’espace Jéliote - National Center for Puppetry - OLORON SAINTE MARIE (64)
  • Le Trident - SN Cherbourg (50)
  • Le Théâtre des 4 saisons - Conventioned stage of GRADIGNAN (33)
  • Les 3 T - Conventioned stage of CHÂTELLERAULT (86)
  • L'Éclat - Conventioned stage of PONT-AUDEMER (27)
  • Théâtre Brétigny (91)
  • OARA - Artistic office of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region
  • IDDAC - Cultural Agency of the Gironde department
  • Connected cultures - Region and DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine

PARTNERSHIPS

  • Le Groupe FORME(S) - UQAM
  • Atelier TRAM-e - Oloron Sainte Marie
  • LABLAB - Digital experimentation hub - Lyon
  • Fablab Bordeaux École Numérique.

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 Gironde Department

Team
  • Performance, staging and dramaturgy / Céline Garnavault
  • Sound creation and co-design of objects / Thomas Sillard
  • Assistant director and dramaturgy / Léa Carton de Grammont
  • Associate researcher (robotics in the performing arts) and dramaturgical advice / Julie-Michèle Morin
  • Associate researcher (puppet arts) and animated forms advice / Dinaïg Stall
  • Co-design and management of objects / Nicolas Guichard
  • Collaboration on scenography, objects & general management / Olivier Droux
  • Felted wool creations / Natacha Sansoz
  • Movement collaboration / Julie Coutant
  • Light creation / Chloé Agag
  • Costumes / Caroline Di Paolo
  • Magic advice / in progress
  • Videographer / Luka Merlet
  • Photographer / Frédéric Desmesure
  • 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

Diffusion

SEASON 26/27

ON TOUR

  • 10/11/26 > CREATION - Through the puppet - Espace Jéliote / CNMa d’OLORON SAINTE MARIE (64)
  • 02/02/2027 > Biennale With or without threads - L’Hectare - CNMa / VENDÔME (41)
  • 01/04/2027 > The 3T / CHÂTELLERAULT (86)
  • 28/04 and 29/04/2027 > Théâtre des 4 Saisons / GRADIGNAN (33)

RESIDENCIES

  • 7 to 18 September 26 > L’Hectares / CNMa de VENDÔME (81)
  • 26 October to 6 November 26 > Théâtre des 4 saisons - GRADIGNAN (33)

SEASON 25/26

RESIDENCIES

  • 25 August to 5 September 25 > Espace Jéliote / CNMa d’OLORON SAINTE MARIE (64)
  • 1 and 2 December 25 > Théâtre des 4 saisons / GRADIGNAN
  • 7 and 8 January 26 > LABLAB – Digital factory / VILLEURBANNE
  • 26 January to 6 February 2026 > The 3 T - CHATELLERAULT (86)
Read More

Posters and Flyers

affects-dossier-26-glisses-1773667077.jpg


Supports