Dans l'Atelier
(In the Workshop)
A
short wacky performance as a sort
of preamble to inviting the
audience, both children and adults, to try their hand at making their
own puppets. Eighteen crazy minutes to recount
the mishaps of a
puppet under construction who decides to make a stab at finishing up
the job himself.... Eighteen minutes during which
the character
struggles with the elements, with the material, the objects,
and
sometimes even with the manipulators themselves, to the point of
tyrannizing them....
A show for adults and children from 8 years old and up
Conception, script, staging, scenography and puppets: Alain Moreau
Creative staff: Sarah Demarthe, Emilie Plazolles
Performance: Angela Malvasi, Sandrine Hooge, Yannick Duret and Alain Moreau (rotational)
Technical staff: Amaury Bertels or Alain Moreau
Musical creation : Max Vandervorst
Lighting design : Dimitri Joukovsky
Creation and collaboration on the scenario : Gilbert Epron et Dimitri
Joukovsky
Assistant to the scenography : Sarah Demarthe
Photos : Melisa Stein, Guto Muniz
Construction of the structure for the set : Margaud Carpentiers
Tour Manager : My-Linh Bui - Kurieuze & Cies
Some notes on our aims…
To transmit…
For several years now, I have been increasingly solicited to organize
workshops on making puppets. Several events over the last few years
have made me realize the importance of transmission. The first
experience involved some young graduates from the Centre des Arts
Scénique during a sort of training course to initiate them into how to
manipulate puppets, its aim being the creation of a street
animation/show or indoor theatre show. This gave rise to “Les
Bénévoles” and is in many ways what planted the seed for this idea.
Then there was the experience during my two years of teaching acting
students at the Conservatoire de Mons, when they found themselves with
cutters, polystyrene, sandpaper, glue, scrim and paintbrushes in their
hands. I became convinced of the necessity of transmission.
Other experiences have confirmed this thinking such as my yearly
participation in “Place aux enfants” and most recently “Carrefour des
Générations” here in my hometown of Genappe. In the space of a few
minutes, prompted by the assembly that had come to visit my workshop,
I set about making a puppet head out of a block of polystyrene,
arousing much interest. Moreover, after one of these open workshops, a
child and a young pre-adolescent asked me whether they could join me
in making things in my studio… Ever since, we meet once in a while to
make things side by side—what beautiful things spring from their young
hands!
From the initial idea to its materialization....
Slowly but surely, an idea began to take shape.... What if I moved my
studio, or rather, what if I made a mobile extension of it to bring it
closer to people, in the street or in the hallways of a theatre, as a
way of sharing my art and making puppets with them?
I decided to act on this.
Very quickly, the idea evolved and I felt I wanted to give even
something more....
Alain Moreau
Director
On a practical note...
A show for adults and children from 8 years and up
Length of the show: 18 minutes
Number of spectators per show: maximum 130 (depending on the venue,
and whether there are fixed bleachers or improvised seating...)
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