Year
2019
Theater company
Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord Pas de Calais
Cast
Conception and direction: Amélie Poirier
Assisted by: Carine Gualdaroni
Puppets: Audrey Robin
Glove puppets: Marta Pereira
Construction trainee: Manon Ducrot
Lights: Henri-Emmanuel Doublier
Space: Philémon Vanorlé
Diffusion: Claire Girod
QUARTET created in collaboration with and performed by: Mathieu Jedrazak alternating with Sylvain Manet, Yves Mwamba alternating with Léo Lequeuche, Marta Pereira alternating with Jessie-Lou Lamy-Chappuis, Clémentine Vanlerberghe, alternating with Jessie-Lou Lamy-Chappuis.
DUO created in collaboration and performed by: Sylvain Manet alternating with Mathieu Jedrazak, Clémentine Vanlerberghe alternating with Jessie-Lou Lamy-Chappuis or Sophie Mayeux, Audrey Robin alternating with Marta Pereira or Lauriane Durix.
Tour
Premiere of the QUARTET form in March 2019 at the TJP / CDN Strasbourg-Grand Est
Premiere of the DUO form in October 2019 at the Szene EUROPA Festival in Dresden (Germany).
The show was performed in France, Germany, Belgium and Bulgaria from 2019 to 2025.
Production
Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais
Coproduction
Bouffou Théâtre à la Coque as part of a mentoring program, Théâtre des Ilets / CDN de Montluçon-Auvergne and Carré / Scène Nationale de Château-Gontier
Soutien
DRAC, Région HdF, Collectif Jeune Public Hauts-de-France, Institut International de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières (as part of its program to assist ESNAM graduates in finding employment), Fondation SACD-Beaumarchais (production and residency support), CDCN Le Gymnase à Roubaix, TJP / CDN Strasbourg-Grand Est, Tas de Sable-Ches Panses Vertes and Grand Bleu.
Amélie Poirier received the Beaumarchais-SACD Foundation’s choreography grant for this piece.
Glove puppet materials
fabric, polystyrene, cardboard and acrylic paint
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