In her study “La Marionnette, Laboratoire du Théâtre”, Hélène Beauchamp argues for the puppet's ability to question and evolve the aesthetics of theatre: «At the end of the 19th century, all over Europe, the theatrical avant-gardes were making the puppet, hitherto anchored in declining traditions, their own. (...) We can see how the polemical energy of the puppet model explored, often before its time, the fundamental territories of the modern stage: meta-theatricality, parody, distancing, the fusion of the arts, but also the search for a metaphysical, popular and political theatre.»

Based on the issues raised by Hélène Beauchamp, we will open the debate with the artists and speakers present on the contradictory, conflicting or fluid influences that contemporary puppetry has on tradition and transposes into its different aesthetics..

Moderator: Thomas Morisset, PhD and lecturer in philosophy at the Université Côte d'Azur, member of the CRHI and the Collectif Nuée.

With the participation of :

• Francesca Di Fazio, Doctor of Performing Arts and Deputy Artistic Director of the ERT Emilia Romagna Teatri national theatre.
• Renaud Herbin, director-puppeteer-dramatist, former director of the TJP - Centre dramatique national de Strasbourg, artistic director of the L'étendue company.
• Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu, director-set designer-puppeteer, artistic director of the Théâtre de la Massue company and the FORMA Festival.

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