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.
Renaud Harbin directs the 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 of 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 e Open the Owl (presented in 2017 and 2018 at the Teatro São Luiz). Renaud creates a singular scenic and visual language, mixing theater, opera, contemporary writing and dance, at the center of which he places the his approach to the idea of manipulation, understood by some 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.
