PUPPETS AND BODY ARCHITECTURE
By observing, designing and transforming your own body, you begin to create your puppet.
This workshop starts from the architecture of the performer’s body. Through posture, tension and rhythm, participants explore how physical structure becomes movement, and movement becomes presence. Anatomy shifts into animation, as weight, impulse and intention give rise to figures that feel alive.
Participants are invited to imagine, design and build their own puppet worlds. Starting from existing forms, new characters emerge through observation, distortion and play. By tuning into how the body moves, pauses and reacts, performers learn to transfer clarity, emotion and inner life into their puppets—until the object begins to act on its own.
Puppetry here is a collective act. Movement is no longer preparation; it becomes narrative. Play opens a dialogue between performer and object, allowing relationships and situations to unfold. Rhythm, sound and song shape the atmosphere, guiding storytelling through the body.
Through improvisation and ensemble devising, participants explore physical storytelling with attention and restraint. The work asks how little is needed to awaken an audience’s imagination—how a gesture, a pause or a shift in weight can open an entire world. Body, image and object meet in a shared language where presence leads and words fall away.
Available for conservatoires, festivals and professional training programs, and independent participants — no prior experience required.
