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Something Softens

  • TJP Strasbourg, France
  • Duration 30 minutes
  • with little spoken English
  • €7,00
  • Puppetry

Benoit Schupp
Benoit Schupp
Benoit Schupp

Over recent years, French puppeteer and director Renaud Herbin has been constantly pushing the boundaries of animation to develop a consistent form for the multi-layered visual poetics in his works. »Quelque chose s'attendrit«/ »Something Softens« …

Over recent years, French puppeteer and director Renaud Herbin has been constantly pushing the boundaries of animation to develop a consistent form for the multi-layered visual poetics in his works. »Quelque chose s'attendrit«/ »Something Softens« is one of his latest experiments with form, and is a short image-sound poem where gravity is reversed. A puppet comes together to join with the performance potential of light and archaic principles of optics. The audience walks around a fascinating set made from lenses, transforming the three-dimensional puppet into a two-dimensional shadow. It is a waking dream between clarity and fuzziness, a dance of puppet and human hand, and a most unusual theatre experience.

Information about the accessibility of the venue in structural terms can be found here. No seating; the audience can move freely throughout the space.

Dates

6.11. Sun

Concept, text, direction
Renaud Herbin

Puppetry
Bruno Amnar

Puppet making
Hélène Barreau

Music
Sir Alice

Research and construction
Éric Fabacher, Anthony Latuner, Sophie Prietz

Techniical management
Mehdi Ameur, Thomas Fehr

Technique
Anthony Auberix

Co-production with
La Maison des Métallos Paris

Guest performance with the kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture.

Programme
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