Yngvild Aspeli

Artistic director of Plexus Polaire, Yngvild Aspeli, develops a visual world that brings our most buried feelings to life. The use of life-sized puppets is at the center of her work, but the actor’s performance, the presence of the music and the use of light and video are all equal elements in communicating the story.

Director, actress, puppeteer and puppet-maker, Yngvild Aspeli studied at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris (2003-2005) and at ESNAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières (2005-2008).

Within her French-Norwegian company Plexus Polaire, she has directed six shows: Signals (2011), Opera Opaque (2013), Ashes (2014), Chambre noire (2017), Moby Dick (2020) and Dracula (2022). She is currently working on an adaptation of A Doll’s House that premiered in Autumn 2023.

Yngvild is currently an associated artist at CDN Dijon-Bourgogne (France) and companionship-artist at Théâtre d’Auxerre (France). She is also the artistic director of Figurteatret i Nordland (Nordland Visual Thatre) in Stamsund, Norway.

To read more about her artistic vision 

PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
2022: Hedda Prize for “Best Audiovisual Design” for Moby Dick, Norway
2022: “Chevalière des Arts et des Lettres”, France
2020: Laureate of “Groupe des 20” with Moby Dick, France
2018: “Best Performance” Prize for Ashes - Teatr Lalek Banialuka, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
2017: Drac d’Or for Ashes - Fira des Titelles, Lleida, Spain
2015: Nomination for an Hedda prize for Ashes in the category “Best Audiovisual Design”, Norway