MICRO-FESTIVAL DE MARIONNETTES INACHEVÉES 2018
Eleven projects from France, Senegal, the United States, and Quebec
will arrive in Trois-Rivières with their cargo
to present their projects in progress.
Among the exciting guests are:
Le Théâtre d’Illusia, which will sweep you away in a maelstrom on wheels, Shakespeare’s The Tempest reinvented by a bunraku enthusiast.
Le Théâtre de la Pire Espèce will let you breathe the serene air of their Zen vegetable garden.
Come hang out on the clothesline to the warm American voices of Veronica Barron and Rachel Weise. A sensual performance combining dance and shadow theater.
With Petit bout de bois, by the Djarama company, Senegalese artist Patricia Gomis takes you to her home, to the world of street children, to discover a shocking reality. A show that encourages you to open your eyes rather than look away; a show that highlights all the courage, strength, and resilience it takes to survive.
Several other companies will present the results of their experimental explorations. Both diverse and unusual, these still fragile works will allow you to enter into the very heart of the creative act.
CONTES ZEN DU POTAGER
Théâtre de Le Pire Espèce (Montreal)
with Olivier Ducas and Karine St-Arnaud
In Zen Tales from the Vegetable Garden, the heroes are monks or samurai; a vegetable or fruit serves as their body, revealing their character.
Each intervention by the manipulators is as confident and minimal as the gesture of a calligrapher or Japanese chef, as ritualistic as the art of tea, and as entertaining and inventive as the art of the object allows!
www.pire-espece.com
BE CLEAN
with Rachel Wiese & Veronica Barron (United States)
To the sound of blues music, two women wash their clothes and hang them on the clothesline. Some are manipulated like puppets, some are carried, and others are used as shadow screens. Through dance and song, Be Clean explores family relationships that are affectionate, sensual, and antagonistic.
veronicabarron.com
TEMPÊTE SUR UN VÉLO
Théâtre d’Illusia (France) – Jean-Christophe Canivet
It is a bicycle sailboat, an island on bicycle wheels in the middle of an ocean of doubt. Prospero tries to make the characters dance on this rocking island and play the symphony of a better world.
Water, plastic, recycled materials, puppets, and musical notes compose a dance around the island, passing like drops through Prospero’s fingers…
AU BOUT DES DOIGTS
Théâtre des Petites Âmes (Montréal)
with Isabelle Payant, Stéphane Heine, Nancy Longchamp, and Alice Guéricolas-Gagné
Today, she and he share their lives, knowing that everything depends on a touch between them, a touch that could plunge him into death. The glove intervenes in every sphere of their story. A story that unfolds at their fingertips.
PETIT BOUT DE BOIS
Cie Djarama (Sénégal)
Le Tas de Sable / Ches Panses Vertes (France)
with Patricia Gomis
Petit bout de bois (Little Piece of Wood) is a show that recounts the daily lives of street children in Senegal. It offers a glimpse into the inventiveness and astonishing creativity of these children, who manage to get by with almost nothing and reinvent new ways to survive every day as children in a world of adults…
WOLF TEA
Lost & Found Puppets Co. (Montréal)
with Maggie Winston and Naomi Moon
An exploration between the mundane and the fantastic. Wolf Tea explores a dreamlike universe using masks, shadow puppets, and physical theater through unsettling soundscapes.
LE DÉFILÉ
with Barbara Mélois (France)
Come and watch the parade!
A parade of majorettes?
Old cars?
A haute couture fashion show?
Surprise!
www.barbara-melois.fr
DISSECTION, PETITS CHANTIERS
Julie Desrosiers and Raphaël Néron-Baribeau (Montréal)
Dissection, petits chantiers is a performative installation exploring the weather of the body, what inhabits it, passes through it, or disrupts it, like a container and contents of vast, microscopic, external, or internal territories.
www.juliedesrosiers.ca
ENTRES LES LIGNES DEMAIN
Cie Stultiferanavis (France)
with Julie Linquette
Reading palm lines means establishing this unique connection while breaking down the traditional and cultural barriers that prevent us from touching others in any way other than through words or images. Touching the viewer, exploring their hand with my fingertips like an unknown land where their future story is written between the lines—that is the show I want to create.
compagniastultiferanavis.blogspot.com
MEA CULPA
Les Sages Fous (Trois-Rivières)
with Claudine Rivest, Céline Chevrier, Laurence Petitpas, Noé Cropsal and Mélanie Baillairgé
Enter a confessional and see and hear the secrets of your contemporaries…
En savoir plus
REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE
Patrick Argirakis (France)
Throughout the festival, photographer Patrick Argirakis will capture moments of pure creativity. This photo report will be added to his extensive collection of photos from puppet festivals around the world.
