Apart from their proximity, the Festival d'Avignon and the Institut Supérieur des Techniques du Spectacle (ISTS) envisage their respective missions with the desire to be conveyors. Culture conveyors, conveyors in the pedagogical meaning of the word, the two institutions have therefore decided to repeat the experiment launched in 2008 of presenting the end-of-the-year project of the major performing arts training institutions, to have these students undergo the experience of meeting with the audience. After the ENSATT illuminated by the presence of Anatoli Vassiliev and the ERAC, supervised by Ludovic Lagarde and Laurent Poitrenaux, the Atelier-Théâtre of the
ISTS this year welcomes the ESNAM (école Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette), the puppet school from Charleville-Mézières.
Le Théâtre ambulant Chopalovitch (extracts)
by Lioubomir Simovitch
There are 15 of them, French and foreign. They are finishing their first year of studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ENSAM) of Charleville-Mézières, whose aim is to acquire of the basics: acting, voice, body, playwriting, visual arts. To introduce the spectator to this training, the student actor-puppeteers will present three variations of Le Théâtre ambulant Chopalovitch by Lioubomir Simovitch, a text that treats occupation and its consequences. This Serbian author, born in 1935 in Oujitse, recounts the resistance to Nazi oppression through the story of a theatre company, or the shock of the encounter between reality and utopia. Echoing current events, the text questions the place of the artist and theatre performance in a country at war, in a crisis, in mutation. Through three scenographic projects produced by the students, the question of the actor-puppeteer in a text whose manipulated figure is a priori absent, is asked. With all the participants of the pedagogic council, we seek to develop the dual identity of the actor and the puppeteer in his relationship with the manipulated object and to deepen the place of the puppet in any classic or traditional theatre work.
Lucile Bodson, director
Distribution
by the 8th class (2008-2011) of the ESNAM
Work supervised by the pedagogical team of the ESNAM: led by Jean-Louis Heckel
interpretation, scenography and construction: Luce Amoros-Augustin, Samuel Beck, Manuel Congreta, Simon Delattre, Erika Faria de Oliveira, Marie Godefroy, Carine Gualdaroni, Cristina Iosif, Romain Landat, Irène Lentini, Justine Macadoux, Simon Moers, Chloé Ratte, Aitor Sanz Juanes, Naomi Van Niekerk
