Workshop on shadow theatre

Workshop for children from 7 years old
led by Elisabeth Algisi
Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 April 2023
from 9.30am to 12pm (arrival possible from 9am)
OR from 2pm to 4.30pm (arrival possible from 1.45pm)
15€ per child for the 2 half days

Location: Festival premises – 25 rue du Petit Bois – 08000 Charleville-Mézières
Information and registration: 03 24 59 99 89 or assist.communication@festival-marionnette.com

During the Easter holidays, come and create your own little shadow theatre! Build your silhouettes, your screen and tell your own story while learning how to manipulate the set.

Bat workshop

Parent-child workshop organised as part of the World Puppet Day.
Come and build your bat puppet with the Tichodroma company!

Saturday 18 March from 2pm to 6pm (continuous), allow 30 minutes for construction.
Location: 25 rue du Petit Bois, 08000 Charleville-Mézières
Free entry, no registration required and for all ages!

Information: 03 24 59 99 89 or assist.communication@festival-marionnette.com

World Puppet Day coordinated by UNIMA

More than 20 structures are joining forces to offer workshops, screenings, open houses, shows, walks, a performance, a residence outing… in Attigny, Charleville-Mézières, Monthermé, Mouzon, Ville de Nouzonville, Reims, Sedan, Renwez, Signy L’abbaye and Vouziers.

Build and manipulate your puppet

Workshop for children from 7 years old
animated by Coraline Charnet
Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Friday 24 February 2023
From 9h30 to 12h
OR from 2pm to 4:30pm
Price: 25 € per child for 4 half-days
Location: 25 rue du Petit Bois – 08000 Charleville-Mézières
Registration: 03 24 59 90 91 ou  assist.communication@festival-marionnette.com

During the winter vacations, make the animal or creature of your choice (realistic or fantastic) from simple materials (paper, scotch tape), then learn to manipulate it in a setting.

Animals

Workshop for children from 7 years old
led by Raquel Mützenberg-Andrade
Wednesday 2, Thursday 3, Friday 4 November 2022
From 9.30 am to 12 pm
OR from 2pm to 4.30pm
Fee: 20 € per child for 3 half-days
Location: 25 rue du Petit Bois – 08000 Charleville-Mézières
Registration: 03 24 59 90 91 or assist.communication@festival-marionnette.com

During the holidays, make puppets on the theme of animals! The puppeteer Raquel Mützenberg-Andrade leads a workshop for 3 half-days to build muppets, masks and shadows.

Object theatre workshop

Workshop from 16 years old / amateur public
led by the company La Cour Singulière
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 April 2023
From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm
30 euros / person for the two days

Location: Festival premises – 25 rue du Petit Bois – 08000 Charleville-Mézières
Information and registration: 03 24 59 99 89 or assist.communication@festival-marionnette.com

A poetic and very cinematographic writing tool, object theatre allows us to tell stories with the object as our main play partner.
In a playful and progressive way, we propose to familiarise you with their power of suggestion, their symbolism…. Quietly, using the objects as a support, we will let the imaginary speak, while working on the physical presence, the manipulation, the rhythm….
In line with the show we are doing in Charleville “Tire toi de mon herbe Bambi”, we will work on the theme of life.

Workshop on object theatre

Workshop from 16 years old / amateur public
led by Myriam Gautier from compagnie Les Becs verseurs
Thursday 15 December 2022
from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
5 euros / person

Come and tell stories with objects and discover all their narrative potential, enjoy their evocative, poetic and/or humorous capacities and make the object a partner and not an accessory. We explore all this through different games and short stories, more or less improvised!

Manipulation workshop: the representation of movement

Workshop from 16 years old / amateur public
led by Eduardo Félix
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 October 2022
From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm, both days

Puppeteer Eduardo Félix from Brazil has often come to Charleville-Mézières. In 2015 he performed La philosophie dans le boudoir, Portrait de famille and Bira & Bédé; and in 2019 Macunaïma Gourmet.
With his collective Pigmalião Escultura Que Mexe, he constantly seeks to give the audience the illusion that his puppets are alive. In this workshop, Eduardo Félix shares his secrets and techniques of manipulation to give the illusion, through movement, that inanimate objects have a soul!

Shadow theatre is mostly known in its most basic form. Yet it is rich and abundant, as shown by its incredible development over the last 40 years.
To shed light on this issue, the International Puppet Institute and the World Puppet Theatre Festival are opening a series of four conferences on contemporary shadow theatre.

Wednesday 14th December
6pm to 7pm: On the theatrical vocation of shadow.
Dialogue with Julien Gaillard and Fabrizio Montecchi.

Thursday 15th December
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm: Journey in shadow theatre between tradition and innovation. Dialogue with Jean Pierre Lescot and Fabrizio Montecchi.

Thursday 15th December
7pm to 8.30pm: The journey continues… in the folds of shadow theatre.  Video clips (from the archives of the International Puppet Institute) of some shows from the last 40 years that have made the history of contemporary shadow theatre, proposed and commented by Fabrizio Montecchi.

Friday 16th December
6 to 7 pm: Contemporary pedagogies and poetics of shadow theatre. Dialogue with Fabrizio Montecchi and the Théâtre de Nuit.

At the ESNAM Theatre
16 avenue Jean Jaurès, Charleville-Mézières

In French.

All audiences, curious and passionate

Free admission

These conferences are organised within the framework of PREAC #5, training for trainers.

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Fabrizio Montecchi is a director, set designer and teacher. Since 1978, he has been involved with Teatro Gioco Vita in an important artistic experience in which he has worked on the development of shadow theatre. Since 1985, he has directed more than fifty shows and has established himself as one of the greatest directors of contemporary shadow theatre.

Jean-Pierre Lescot, a French artist and actor, founded the company Jean-Pierre Lescot Les Phosphènes in 1968. A pioneer in the revival of shadow theatre in France, he directed the Roublot theatre in Fontenay-sous-Bois from 1988 to 2003. He founded the biennial Voyages en marionnettes festival, which became the “Pôle de la marionnette en Val-de-Marne” in 2003, with an annual programme and a mission to support young artists. He was also a lecturer at the École nationale supérieure des arts de la marionnette (ESNAM) in Charleville-Mézières and president of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes from 2019 to 2022.

Julien Gaillard is an author. After a brief period at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he became an actor and worked, among others, under the direction of Christian Boltanski, Éloi Recoing and the composer Franck Krawczyk. In 2010, he decided to devote himself exclusively to writing. His texts are situated at the crossroads of theatre and poetry, in that indeterminate zone where narrative, prose and verse never cease to be in search of a possible dialogue with the temporality of theatre itself.