Renaud Herbin (France)

QUELQUE CHOSE S’ATTENDRIT

SÃO LUIZ TEATRO MUNICIPAL - Sala Mário Viegas

17 and 18 May at 10.30am and 2.30pm (Tue, Wed) - Schools

17 and 18 May at 7.30pm (Tue, Wed) - General public

_{Portuguese Premiere}

_⇨ _{TICKETS ONLINE Tickets: 3€ - Children / 7€ - Adults +info}

_{Technique: String puppets, shadows and projections Language: Some words in Portuguese}_{Age guidance: +8 Runs: 45 min.}

A visual and sound poem whispered to the audience’s ears and eyes, like a caress or a day dream.

An optical performance with a string puppet that moves across the interstellar space and where one can experience an upside-down world, where the top becomes the bottom and the minuscule transforms into something infinitely large.

When a minuscule human being is confronted with infinite light scales, the archaic optical principles reveal secret realities. Suddenly, the world turns upside-down and this being explores an inverse reality, where gravity brings it up, the unfocusing is the rule and clarity is a happening.

Quelque chose s’attendrit is presented together with Si le soleil repare, and optical and asteroid installation, where moving light projections resemble a meteor collection, moons or stars, that move through automations and optical games.

Renaud Herbin, TJP director – Centre Dramatique National d’Alsace Strasbourg, is back at FIMFA and scrambles our perceptions.

^{"In Herbin's new, insightful and avant-garde puppet show, the artist's typical way of making shows with multiple perceptions is transformed into a staging concept, representing an exploratory approach to an object, puppet, movement, image and technology." - Tjaša Bertoncelj, EU Contemporary Puppetry Critical Platform}

BIO

Renaud Herbin is the director of TJP – Centre Dramatique National d’Alsace Strasbourg since 2012, where he created the global project Corps-Objet-Image, decompartmentalizing puppet matter practices with the choreographic and visual arts fields. He studied at the ESNAM – École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières. He was one of the co-founders and co-directors of the company LàOù – marionnette contemporaine. He staged and interpreted plenty of visual and sound performances, in general starting those on literary or dramatic pieces. Among his many creations, FIMFA hosted: Actéon Miniature (2014), Milieu and Open the Owl (presented in 2017 and 2018 at the Teatro São Luiz). Renaud creates a singular scenic and visual language, mixing theatre, opera, contemporary writing and dance, at the center of which he places his approach to the idea of manipulation, understood by as something that connects the artistic fields and all things. His creations include the presence of puppets, actors, dancers, sounds and images interacting on stage.

_CREDITS

_{Concept: Renaud Herbin Performer: Bruno Amnar Puppet: Hélène Barreau Music: Sir Alice Research and construction: Sophie Prietz, Anthony Latuner, Éric Fabacher, Maxime Lance Technical direction: Thomas Fehr Technician on tour: Suzon Michat Photography: Benoit Schupp Production: Mathilde Mangeot, TJP - Centre Dramatique National de Strasbourg - Grand Est, La Maison des Métallos - Paris}