Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes

Support for creation

The Festival supports creation. It provides long-term support to artists and companies at national and international level, through financial support and/or residencies for research and creation.

Companies supported in 2020-2021

  • 2020-2021

Cie AMK – France

“Nid”
Meditative paintings for children and adults from 18 months. NID explores the theme of the path of life, using the symbolism of the four elements to describe the world and find a place in it.
Création février 2021

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© Christophe Sermet – photo de répétition
  • 2020-2021

Gare Centrale – Belgique

“Il n’y a rien dans ma vie qui montre que je suis moche intérieurement”

Création FMTM 2021

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© David Bormans
  • 2020-2021

After Party Cie – Belgique

“Normal”
Through Claire’s story, the show questions the value we place on the objects and people around us in our disposable society. A story with a whimsical look but anchored in a social reality that mixes puppets, objects, video and actresses.
Création September 2020

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Maquette hypothèse de scénographie
  • 2020-2021

Cie Placement libre – France

“Le Gonze de Lopiphile”
An actor, an acrobat and a musician are involved in an experiment: inventing themselves as archaeologists to reconstruct the history of a mysteriously abandoned landscape. A reflection on the importance of ruins.
Création November 2020

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© Christophe Loiseau
  • 2020-2021

Théâtre du Mouvement – France

“L’inventaire inanimé”
Claire Heggen opens a toolbox, consisting of a playful primer and a small grammar of the relationship. Technical demonstrations, extracts from shows, improvisations, metaphorical games, will show a thought of gesture, a practice of otherness and a dramaturgy of the in-between.
Création FMTM 2021

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  • 2020-2021

Singe Diesel – France

“Sueño”
The spectator follows the story of Tom, a blind homeless man, who uses his puppets to show a city as he imagines it, as if in a dream. A visual, poetic and psychedelic show.
Création FMTM 2021

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  • 2020-2021

Cie Méandres – France

“Nos petits enterrements”
Death rituals from a child’s perspective. In theatre, puppets and songs, based on the book by Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson.
Création FMTM 2021

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Photo de répétition
  • 2020-2021

Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust – Inde

“1001 Arabian Nights”
A performance based on the folk tales of the Thousand and One Nights, with a contemporary direction by Anurupa Roy.
Création October 2020

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© Cie Belova-Iacobelli
  • 2020-2021

Cie Belova-Iacobelli – Belgique/Chili

“Loco”
The performance project Loco is inspired on the one hand by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s short story The Diary of a Madman, the life of the author who suffered from a mental disorder, and on the other hand by our own experiences.
Création June 2021

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© Paul Cox
  • 2020-2021

Cie Trois-six-trente – France

“Bouger les lignes”
A creation inspired by cartography, addressed to young earthlings from the age of eleven, whatever their longitude and latitude, performed by four actors from the Oiseau Mouche company. Directed by Bérangère Vantusso and set to images-maps-planes-sails-volumes… by Paul Cox.
Création July 2021

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