Paola Rizza

Director and Outside Eye

Originally from Italy, Paola moved to Paris in 1983 and studied at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Her career navigated between different disciplines: theatre, visual theatre, puppetry, object theatre, circus... Gradually, she devoted herself more and more to directing.

In 1995, she joined the teaching team at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Her multidisciplinary career has taken her to create and train young artists in the fields of circus, theatre and puppetry, constantly seeking the encounter between acting and movement. She has worked for Non Nova Company, Caroline Obin, la compagnie d’Elles, Ludor Citrik, Sylvain Julien, Julien Candy and la Scabreuse.

Paola has collaborated with Plexus Polaire for the shows Signaux, Ashes and Chambre noire.

Thylda Bares

Assistant Director (Dracula)

Thylda trained in singing at the Maîtrise de Paris, and in the circus arts. She studied at Queen Mary University of London, her third year of school in Rio de Janeiro, then a master's year at the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in New York. She finished the Jacques Lecoq International Theater School in 2016. Since then, she has worked with the company Z Machine (Circus), the company Entrées de Jeu (Forum Theater), the LUIT (theatre in public spaces), la Brèche - Lorraine de Sagazan as an assistant director. She is a founding member of the 2222 collective, with which she produces her own shows.

Dracula is her first collaboration with Plexus Polaire.

Pauline Thimonnier

Dramaturg

After a double university course in Modern Literature and Theater Studies, she joined the "Dramaturgy" section of the ENSAD of the National Theater of Strasbourg from 2005 to 2008. Lecturer, she teaches at the University of Paris 7-Diderot (2009 -2011) and at Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2009-2015). Exploring dramaturgy in all its forms, she collaborates as an author and dramaturg with numerous theatre, object theater and puppet companies (Plexus Polaire, La Mue/tte, la Cie à, Tro-Héol, Pupella-Noguès, Hollow Eyes, Yoann Pencolé, Yeung Faï, etc.). Since 2019, she has been teaching at ESNAM in Charleville-Mézières. Partner of France Culture's "Fictions" since 2012, she is the author of several adaptations (Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, Germinal, The Magnificent Gatsby, Farenheit 451, etc.) and numerous editing of texts for the airwaves, thus adding the radio medium to her dramaturgical projects.

Cécile Laloy

Choreographer (Tarantella)

Cécile founded the ALS company in 2003, quickly supported by Maguy Marin and accompanied several times by Francois Tanguy. She created Jane in 2003, then Histoires d’impressions as a collective. In 2008, It's raining was produced after a residency at Tràfo in Budapest through the European Pepinieres for Young Artists. She participated in a residency involving artists from different scopes at the CCN de Rillieux in 2010 and created Menteuse, a piece that was performed in the European Spider and the FAÇADES festivals, in collaboration with Florence Girardon and created with the inhabitants of Saint-Étienne in 2012 and Toulouse in 2014. She made a dance concert Clan'ks for 4 dancers in 2015 at the 7 hills festival.

Invited by Florence Girardon, she co-wrote Passion(s), a creation carried by 9 authors: M. Marin, E. Pellet, P. Vincent, P. Pontvianne, F. Girardon, E. Sanmarco, U. Alvarez, D. Mambouch and C. Laloy created at Montpellier Danse in 2016, where she is also a performer. Dancer from 2005 to 2012 with Annie Vigier and Franck Appertet, she produced several museum performances, notably for the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Lyon (5 months of performances). She also got to perform in Mayb by M. Marin, with Andonis Foniadakis, Pierre Droulers, the Loge 22 collective and Alice Laloy. Trained at the CNSMD in Lyon, she intensively practiced Kung Fu and clowning during her studies and during the 3 years that followed.

She obtained her state diploma and has been teaching at the La Comédie de Saint-Etienne school since 2012. She also assists several directors on the work around the body in their plays, such as Mathieu Cruciani, Pascal Kirsh, Alice Laloy, Elsa Imbert.

Tarantella (Doll’s House) is her first collaboration with Plexus Polaire.

Benoît Seguin

Assistant Director (Moby Dick)

Benoît started l’Ecole du Studio Théâtre in Asnières-Sur-Seine (France) in 2003, an acting school directed by Jean-Louis Martin Barbaz and Hervé Van Der Meulen. During five years, Benoît learnt and practiced acting, dancing and singing, and studied authors like Tchekhov, Brecht, Molière, Giraudoux, Lorca, Ionesco… He graduated in 2008. Then he worked as an actor with many directors and companies such as La Cie du Studio, Patrick Simon, Teatro Di Fabio, David Lejard-Ruffet, Cie Narcisse, Annabelle Sergent/Cie Loba.

As a director, he staged La Griffe by H. Barker (2008), the opera : The Old maid and the thief by J-C Menotti (2011), Love & Money by D. Kelly (2013), Barbie Furieuse by A. Bourrel (2016). As an assistant director, he worked with Anne Barbot on Nous aurions pu être heureux pour toujours ensemble inspired by Humiliated and insulted by Dostoïevski (2017) and more recently, with Plexus Polaire, directed by Yngvild Aspeli, on Moby Dick.