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Elise Vigneron founded the Théâtre de l’Entrouvert company in 2009 with a solo performance, Traversées, a wordless, ambulatory show designed to inhabit unconventional spaces. Her artistic vision focuses on developing a visual language that speaks directly to the senses and the unconscious, immersing audiences in a shared and intimate experience.
Developing a visual language that speaks directly to the senses and the unconscious, immersing the audience in a shared and intimate experience, is the artistic vision she pursues.

Traversées laid the foundation for a visual writing style close to installation art, combining a strong presence of the elements (water, earth, fire, air) with unsettling imagery. Its premiere at the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières led to extensive international touring. The piece received the “Innovative Form” award at the International Puppet Festival in Lleida, Spain.

From 2008 to 2011, she was supported by Vélo Théâtre, a venue dedicated to object theatre in Apt (84).

In 2011, Elise Vigneron created a short, musical version of Traversées, titled Traversées / Fragments, in collaboration with musicians Émilie Lesbros (vocals) and Pascal Charrier (guitar).

IMPERMANENCE est créé en 2013 avec Eleonora Gimenez, équilibriste, autour des poèmes de Tarjei Vesaas et de l’animation de matériaux éphémères et instables.

From 2014 to 2017, she was an associate artist at Espace Jéliote, a venue for puppet arts in Oloron Sainte-Marie (64).

In Anywhere (2016), a piece freely inspired by Henry Bauchau’s novel Oedipus on the Road and created with puppeteer Hélène Barreau, Elise Vigneron deepened her research into the transformation of ice—from solid to gas—by staging a puppet made of ice, representing the figure of Oedipus. This show receives Henry Bauchau’s prize in 2017 and the first pize at Puppet festivalof Ostrava in Czech republic

In L’enfant (2018), premiered at TJP, CDN of Strasbourg, she developed an immersive form adapted from The Death of Tintagiles by Maurice Maeterlinck. The audience is guided through a labyrinthine space filled with ephemeral scenography, experiencing the play physically and from within.

From 2015 to 2020 Elise Vigneron is accompanied by Les Théâtres in Marseille and Aix en Provence (13).

Alongside the productions and in collaboration with cultural institutions, the company leads transmission work through labs, workshops, and training sessions.

The company Théâtre de l’Entrouvert is contracted by the DRAC Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur. Often receives support for creation from the town of Apt, the Conseil départemental of Vaucluse, the Région Sud and SPEDIDAM and ADAMI. The company also receives support for touring from ONDA (National Office for Artistic Circulation). She receives regular support from SPEDIDAM and ADAMI.

The company’s productions have been presented at prestigious venues and festivals such as SPAF – Seoul Performing Arts Festival (South Korea), the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières (France), the Biennale of Puppet Arts in Paris, the Corps-Objets-Images Biennale at TJP, CDN of Strasbourg, Teatro Nacional de Montevideo (Uruguay), Municipal Theatre of Rosario (Argentina), FIMFA Festival in Lisbon (Portugal), Mime London Festival (UK), UNIDRAM Festival in Potsdam (Germany), Internationales Figurentheaterfestival in Magdeburg (Germany), Lutke Festival in Ljubljana (Slovenia), among others.