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Large beasts with antlers tend their garden and harvest the affection of passersby to use as fertilizer for their offspring as it quietly takes root. Please feed the beast and keep your eyes peeled; she will sow wonder! Julie Desrosiers is a puppeteer with a visual arts and scenography background. Julie received the 2013 The […]

Two scientists are studying mice, hoping to find a (better) future for humankind… This short piece was created in 2013 as part of the graduate program in contemporary puppet theatre at UQAM. Carmen and Iulian Bulancea are from Romania.

Des Souris ou des Hommes – Iulian et Carmen Bulancea (Montréal) La Promenade des Bois – Julie Desrosiers (Montréal) Ragou, Rat de Bibliothèque – Théâtre de l’Œil (Montréal) Garçon d’Ascenseur – Salim Hammad (Montréal) Puppets love the Grande Bibliothèque! Many have arranged to meet in the Espace Jeunes section to leisurely read a book, help the staff with their rounds or perform […]

Montréal Premier Six-year-old Rosépine is determined to help her grandfather Akaï face the major environmental upheavals that are tormenting his country, Japan. Together they must save the melon fields threatened by increasingly important storms. In the distance, she hears the mysterious sound of weeping… But where is it coming from? Rosepine is a sensitive and […]

Red Light! is a lighting installation made ​​of textured and heterogeneous objects that serve as a backdrop to a short object theatre piece. It’s the story of a brothel, a man with hat, a woman with long nails and perhaps also the story of a ground meat factory’s headquarters… Drawn to industrial design, zebra stripes, […]

Montréal Premiere A show you won’t ever forget! Part circus, part puppet extravaganza, all odd, Frank Meschkuleit dares to answers the famous question: “If all the world’s a stage, where’s the audience going to sit?” The show premiered in Toronto in the spring of 2013. Frank Meschkuleit has been puppeteering for film, stage and television […]

A first in its nine-year history, Casteliers presents a concert by two musicians who are part of the Hôtel de Rive – Giacometti / Temps horizontal creative team. This duo multiplies unexpected experiences: improvisation, humor, sound experiments and a taste for the extreme. Hailing from either side of the “Röstigraben” *, Jean-Jacques and Robert overcome […]

Inspired by the life of Pierre Seel – who was arrested and imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Nazis on suspicion of being gay – Schweinehund is a meditation on Seel’s real-life tragedy during this dark time. Initially developed as a ten-minute workshop performance for the 2011 Xperimental Puppetry Theater program at the Center […]

Premiere Conceived by multidisciplinary artist Emmanuelle Calvé, EMMAC Terre marine is inspired by the Inuit tale The Skeleton Woman. With its magical and visually poetic character, the show presents the unusual relationships between the movement of the puppet-bodies and those of dance-theatre. A rare meeting of exceptional creators! Founded in 1982 by dancer Daniel Soulières, […]

Le Pavillon des immortels heureux is an installation piece that features various automatons that are animated by inaudible frequencies. Light-as-air puppets are attached to speakers and small engines and seem to be manipulated by an invisible force, as the modulation of sound frequencies vary their movements. Their vibrant shadows express all at once nature’s sensuality, […]