Sebastien Puech

Puppet builder

Sébastien is a plastician artist and a puppet builder. He has been working for more than 10 years with Philippe Genty and has created numerous moving objects for his company - but also for others’. His recent projects include: 20 000 Leagues under the Sea by Valérie Lesort and Christian Heck in 2015, Anna’s Dream by 3/6/30 Cie in 2013, Mamas by Isabella Rossellini in 2012 and Le bois Lacté by Stuart Seide in 2011. He has worked as a costume designer-maker for the Opéra de Paris and for Les Guignols de l’Info on Canal+ (French TV). He has also collaborated with le Théâtre sans Toit, Zingaro and been involved in the musical Kirikou et la Sorcière.

Sebatien has collaborated with Plexus Polaire on Ashes and Moby Dick.

Élise Nicod

Puppeteer / Puppet-builder / Masks and Stage props

Élise studied building technics at École Boulle in Paris (2007-2010) and scenography at Arts Décoratifs (2010-2011). Passionate about arts and crafts, she finds herself when getting closer to scenic arts, in particular companies which work on hybrid forms, around visual theatre and puppetry. She worked from 2012 to 2019 with Blick Théâtre, a company from Toulouse (France), which gives her the opportunity to work as a puppeteer, back and forth between the workshop and the stage, on their show, Hullu. En parallèle des tournées, she is involved in various creation processes: mask-building for Rift Cie, Théâtre Crac, Cie Mount..., aesthetic support on street and object theater projects (La Gazinière Cie...); but also making props for the theater as well as on short and animated films. It has been 8 years that she seeks visual, plastic answers through masks, puppets and props that are part of unique scenic proposals.

She joined Plexus Polaire in 2019 for the creation of the show Moby Dick. She kept collaborating with the company and worked on the show Dracula, directed by Yngvild Aspeli for Puppentheater de Halle (DE).

Carole Allemand Delassus 

Puppet-builder

After being trained at the ATEP School in Paris (1989-1993), she worked for 12 years for the Guignols de l'Info program on Canal + (French TV), as head of production for accessories and puppets, alongside Alain Duverne. Today, she collaborates with many theater companies and audiovisual organizations, particularly the visual artist and artistic director Valérie Lesort, with whom she obtained two Molières (2016 and 2020) for the puppets of the play 20,000 Leagues under the Sea at the Comédie Française and the special effects of La Mouche at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. She also got involved in a strong collaboration with Philippe Genty company, on five productions, with the visual artist Sébastien Puech. In creating puppets, she has collaborated with, among others, the Comédie Française, the Opéra Comique, the Compagnie s'appelle Reviens, the Compagnie Trois Six Trente, the Compagnie les Anges aux Plafonds, or the Compagnie 14:20, but also for major musicals (Kirikou and the Witch, The Legend of King Arthur and Robin Hood at the Palais des Congrès). She has also created many puppets, accessories or special effects for the cinema and the audiovisual sector, in particular for films by Eric Lartigau, Sebastien Betbeder or Xavier Giannoli - or for the company Moving Puppet in France, and other television productions abroad. This career led her to share her experience by organizing workshops – but also participates in the promotion of La Nef Manufacture d’Utopie, a place dedicated to puppet companionship in Pantin, Paris (France).

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

Pascale Blaison

Puppet builder

Pascale Blaison was trained as a comedian and as a designer. She began to work in the south of France (where she was born in 1963) as an actress, but came to Paris to follow the Ecole Jacques Lecoq program. In the meantime, she learnt how to perform and build masks in the line of Cyrille Dives (inspired by Nô theater). In 1988, she had the great oportunity to join the Philippe Genty Company and her life took a new direction : the world of puppets. Mixing her skills in design and acting, she has been working for many years now with various companies, in theatre but also in dance. She is also teaching and giving workshops, for example at the National Puppetry School in Charleville Mézières.

Pascale has collaborated with Plexus Polaire on Signaux, Ashes, Chambre noire and Dracula.

Benjamin Moreau

Costume designer, maker

He collaborated as a costume maker with various companies and artists, such as: with Cie des Hommes Approximatifs, Caroline Guiela Nguyn, Andromaque, Se souvenir de Violetta, Le bal d'Emma, Elle Brûle, Le Chagrin, Saïgon, Fraternité -contes fantastiques I,II, with David Geselson, Le silence et la peur, Ceux qui dansaient, with Marc Lainé, Nosztalgia Express, Au travers de la gorge with Richard Brunel, for theatre productions: J'ai la femme dans le sang, Les criminels, Avant que j'oublie – scenography and costume- , En finir with Eddy Belleguelle – scenography and costume- , Roberto Zucco, Certaines n'avaient jamais vu la mer - and for opera productions: Le cercle de Craie, with Thomas Quillardet, Une télévision française, with Cie du théâtre déplié, Adrien Béal, Visite au père, Récits des événéments futurs, Perdu Connaissance, Féria with Cie Espace Commun, Julien Fisera, Eau Sauvage, Opération Blackbird, Un Dieu un animal, L'enfant que j'ai connu, with Cie Coup de Poker, Guillaume Barbaut, Anguille sous roche, Alabama Song, with Boutaïna Elfekkak& Abdellah Taïa, Comme la mer mon amour, with Cie du Détour, Laure Seguette et Agnès Larroque, Les femmes Savantes, On vous raconte des histoires, Cie Hôtel du Nord Lola Naymark, Pourtant elle m'aime, les rues and Cie Nasser Djemai, Vertiges, Cie The Lane, Clara Simpson, Ombres, Delphine Hecquet, Nos solitudes and Cie des Brigands, Yes!

He also has worked at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, the School of Architecture in Nantes, the Faculty of Performing Arts in Besançon, the DMA Costume designer Diderot-Lamartinère in Lyon and the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul, Turkey.

Benjamin has collaborated with Plexus Polaire on Moby Dick and Dracula.

Sylvia Denais

Costume designer, maker

For everyday needs and for the performing arts (theatre, opera, puppetry…)

Sylvia has collaborated with Plexus Polaire on Opéra Opaque, Ashes and Chambre noire.

François Gauthier Lafaye

Scenography

After studying at the prestigious Ecole Boulle (Paris), François began working as a decorator for fashion shows, then as an assistant costume designer for the show Un après-midi à Versailles under the musical direction of William Christie. He then worked as a props maker in the set and costume workshops of the Opéra Garnier. It is as a machinist upholsterer that he integrated the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Théâtre des Amandiers on various productions. His encounters then led him to create the scenographies of Parasites, directed by Philippe Calvario at the Théâtre des Amandiers, Excédent de poids, insignifiant, amorphe by Julien Lacroix at the Théâtre de Vanves, Inventaires by Robert Cantarella at the Figeac festival, La tragédie du Belge by Madame Lune at Mythos Festival, Le Petit Claus et Le Grand Claus by Guillaume Vincent at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Marseille, Notre Printemps Cie Das Plateau at the Théâtre de Gennevilliers, J’ai trop peur by David Lescot at the Théâtre de la Ville and the tour set of Camélia Jordana's musical show. In a collective work approach, he co-signed with Jean-Christophe Meurisse the decorations for the Normandy cabinets of Les Chiens de Navarre and Fugue by Samuel Achache, with Lisa Navarro. He built his own construction workshop and created the sets for Mimi by Guillaume Vincent, Marie Immaculée by Le Toc, Un roi vu du ciel by Sham, Les rêves d'Anna by Bérengère Vantusso.

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