Mizu is a choreographic trio, a landscape piece on water, a pas de trois performed by a dancer, an ice puppet, and her puppeteer.
Mizu, which means “water” in Japanese (水), brings together the worlds of the choreographer Satchie Noro and puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron.
Sparked by their encounter, this creation merges their approaches to materials and storytelling.
A tale of suspension, metamorphosis, ephemerality and mirrors.
On this thread between appearance and disappearance, Mizu celebrates impermanence, the fragility of existence as an ode to life.
Satchie Noro
She grew up in her father’s dojo, studied ballet intensively and enters briefly Deutsch Opera in Berlin. After joining various contemporary dance companies, she founded in 2002 her own company. Furinkaï. A proponent of all-terrain dance, Satchie has activated multiple identities to create artistic objects of all sizes, eager for the outdoors and multidisciplinary bridges.
Élise Vigneron
Trained at the École nationale supérieure des arts de la marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, Élise Vigneron is a stage director, puppeteer, and visual artist. She is the artistic director of Théâtre de l’Entrouvert, a company supported by the French Ministry of Culture. Her creations explore in depth the animation of ephemeral materials, inviting the audience’s participation through carefully designed immersive environments.
Artistic direction and stage direction: Satchie Noro and Élise Vigneron
Puppeteer: Sarah Lascar
Choreography and dance: Satchie Noro
Ice puppet design: Élise Vigneron
Stage design and construction: Éric Noël and Silvain Ohl
Puppet construction: Vincent Debuire assisted by Silvain Ohl and Théo Nérestan
Textile design: Aurore Thibout
Original music composition: Carlos Canales
Sound system design: Hans Kunze
ext excerpt: Olivier Remaud, Penser comme un iceberg, Babel poche, 2023, p.62-63
Voiceover: Millaray Lobos
Sound engineer: Karine Dumont alternating with Hans Kunze
Technical manager: Éric Noël, Robin Noël or Vincent Debuire
Assistant director: Zoé Lizot
Administration & development: Cie Furinkaï and Lucie Leclaire
Production: Émilie Boutet and Lola Goret
Diffusion: Émilie Boutet
Production: Furinkaï (Satchie Noro) and Théâtre de l’Entrouvert (Élise Vigneron) Furinkaï is supported by DRAC Île de France. Théâtre de l’Entrouvert is supported by DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Région Sud, Vaucluse Departmental Council and the city of Apt.
Co-producers: Théâtre Le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI – Villefontaine (38), Théâtre de Châtillon (92), Les Noctambules – Nanterre (92), Houdremont Centre culturel – La Courneuve (93), Théâtre du Fil de l’Eau – Pantin (93), Théâtre de la Joliette – Marseille (13), La Lisière – lieu de création – Bruyères-le-Châtel (91), Art’R – Paris (75), Sud-Est Théâtre – Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (94), Les Ateliers Frappaz – Centre National des Arts de la Rue et de l’Espace Public – Villeurbanne (69), Points communs – Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise (95)
Support: DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, DRAC Île de France, National Aid for Street and Circus Arts Creation, Région Sud, Vaucluse Departmental Council, Seine-Saint-Denis Departmental Council, City of Paris, Vélo Théâtre – Apt (84), Citron Jaune – CNAREP – Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (13), Le Bercail – Dunkirk (59), Groupe F – Arles (13).
Pictures: Christophe Raynaud de Lage, D Jouxtel, JM Coubat, Dyod
