Co-creation Company Furinkaï - Satchie Noro & Théâtre de l'Entrouvert - Élise Vigneron
Choreographic Trio on a Body of Water for a Dancer, an Ice Puppet, and Her Puppeteer
A Landscape Piece
Mizu, which means "water" in Japanese (水), brings together the worlds of circus artist and choreographer Satchie Noro and puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron.
It is a landscape piece on water, a pas de trois performed by a dancer, an ice puppet, and her puppeteer. A tale of suspension, metamorphosis, ephemerality, and mirrors.
Born from their encounter, this creation merges their approaches to material and storytelling—through dance, circus arts, and puppetry. For Satchie Noro, the show continues her poetic exploration of movement in non-traditional spaces—architectural apparatuses—while for Élise Vigneron, it extends a decade-long investigation into ice and remote puppet manipulation.
This unique artistic object reveals the murmurs of matter in transformation: as a duo, as a trio, blending bodies of ice and flesh. It offers us games of balance, lifts, counterweights, surrender… games with a double.
In Mizu, on this thread between appearance and disappearance, Satchie and Élise wish to celebrate impermanence, the fragility of existence as an ode to life, the fusion with this element that makes up our bodies: water, and the passage from form to matter.
Cast
Conception & Direction: Satchie Noro and Élise Vigneron
Puppeteer: Sarah Lascar
Choregraphy and Dance: Satchie Noro
Ice Puppet Design: Élise Vigneron
Scenographic Design and Construction: Éric Noel and Silvain Ohl
Puppet Construction: Vincent Debuire, assisted by Silvain Ohl and Théo Nérestan
Textile Design: Aurore Thibout
Original Music Composition: Carlos Canales
Sound Design: Hans Kunze
Extract of text : Olivier Remaud, Penser comme un iceberg, Babel poche, 2023, p. 62-63
Voice-over : Millaray Lobos
Sound Manager: Karine Dumont alternating with Hans Kunze or Carlos Canales
Technical Manager: Éric Noël and/or Max Potiron and Robin Noël and/or Vincent Debuire
Assistant Director: Zoé Lizot
Production: Émilie Boutet and Lola Goret
Diffusion Manager: Émilie Boutet
Production: Furinkaï Company - Satchie Noro and Théâtre de l’Entrouvert - Élise Vigneron
Co-producers: Théâtre le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI – Villefontaine (38), Théâtre de Châtillon (92), Les Noctambules (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-Bruyère-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)
With support from: DRAC Île de France, DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, National Creation Aid for Street and Circus Arts, Région Sud, City of Paris. And: Vélo Théâtre in Apt (84), Citron Jaune - CNAREP in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (13), Le Bercail in Dunkerque (59), Groupe F (13)...
‘Aerowaves Twenty26 Artist’: Satchie Noro - Cie Furinkaï and Élise Vigneron - Théâtre de l'Entrouvert have been selected by the European platform Aerowaves for Mizu. Aerowaves is co-funded by the Creative Europe’s Platform Programme for the promotion of emerging artists of the European Union Commission.
CALENDAR 2026
March 28 - Scène 55 à Mougins (06)
April 18 - Festival Le Grand Ménage à Cucuron - La Garance Scène Nationale de Cavaillon (84)
May 2 - L’Atelline – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création, lac du Crès(34)
May 6 & 9 - Festival Spring Forward - Aerowaves, Guimarães (PT)
May 17 - Festival Champs Libre - Atelier à Spectacle, Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art en Territoire (28)
May 23-24 mai - Théâtre Hendaye (64)
May 30 - Festival iTAK - Le Manège Maubeuge (59)
June 13 - Domaine régional de Villarceaux & the PIVO (95)
Tanec Praha Dance Festival (CZ)
> June 16 20:30, Zdiby, Vltavské tůně
> June 18 19:30 Varnsdorf, Varnsdorfský rybník
> June 20 17:00 Pilsen, Košutecké jezírko
> June 22 Ostrava, Ostravica River
June 29-30 Bilboko Kalealdia, Bilbao (ES)
July 19 - CDDV Valréas (84)
August 13 - Éclat(s) de rue 2026, Caen (14)
August 15-16 - Festival International des arts de la rue de Chassepierre (BE)
Sept. 19 - Ville de Saclay (91)
Sept. 26-27 - Les Quinconces & L'Espal, Le Mans (72) & La Flèche
Oct. 18 - Week-end Gare d'eau, Lille (59)
2025
May 6 - PREMIÈRE - Théâtre Le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI (38)
May 14 - Vélo Théâtre, Apt (84)
May 17 - Le Sémaphore, Port de Bouc (13), Festival le Train Bleu
May 23 - Biennale internationale des arts de la marionnette & Théâtre du Fil de l’Eau, Pantin (93)
May 25 - Houdremont Centre culturel de La Courneuve (93)
May 28 - Le Citron Jaune CNAREP de Port Saint Louis du Rhône & festival de la Camargue (13)
June 7-8 - Festival tous dehors, La Passerelle, Scène Nationale de Gap (05)
June 12 >14 - Art’R (75) & Théâtre de Châtillon, Paris (92)
June 27 - Festival Par has’Art ! - Les Passerelles, Pontault Combault (77)
June 29 - Domaine départemental de Chamarande (91)
July 4 - Les Tombées de la nuit, Rennes (35)
July 17 > 20 - Festival Chalon dans la Rue, Chalon sur Saône (71)
Sept. 6 - Festival la Grande Balade (28)
Sept. 11 - Internationales Basler Figurentheater Festival BAFF, Basel (CH)
Sept. 14 - Cergy - Soit, Osny (95)
Sept. 20-21 - Cergy - Soit, Cergy (95)
Sept. 23 > 25 - Festival Mondial de Théâtre de marionnettes (08)
Oct. 4 - Festival Artonov, Bruxelles (BE)
Oct 19-20 - Festival Ribambelle & Théâtre Joliette, Marseille (13)
Choreographic Trio on a Body of Water for a Dancer, an Ice Puppet, and Her Puppeteer
A Landscape Piece
Mizu, which means "water" in Japanese (水), brings together the worlds of circus artist and choreographer Satchie Noro and puppeteer and director Élise Vigneron.
It is a landscape piece on water, a pas de trois performed by a dancer, an ice puppet, and her puppeteer. A tale of suspension, metamorphosis, ephemerality, and mirrors.
Born from their encounter, this creation merges their approaches to material and storytelling—through dance, circus arts, and puppetry. For Satchie Noro, the show continues her poetic exploration of movement in non-traditional spaces—architectural apparatuses—while for Élise Vigneron, it extends a decade-long investigation into ice and remote puppet manipulation.
This unique artistic object reveals the murmurs of matter in transformation: as a duo, as a trio, blending bodies of ice and flesh. It offers us games of balance, lifts, counterweights, surrender… games with a double.
In Mizu, on this thread between appearance and disappearance, Satchie and Élise wish to celebrate impermanence, the fragility of existence as an ode to life, the fusion with this element that makes up our bodies: water, and the passage from form to matter.
Cast
Conception & Direction: Satchie Noro and Élise Vigneron
Puppeteer: Sarah Lascar
Choregraphy and Dance: Satchie Noro
Ice Puppet Design: Élise Vigneron
Scenographic Design and Construction: Éric Noel and Silvain Ohl
Puppet Construction: Vincent Debuire, assisted by Silvain Ohl and Théo Nérestan
Textile Design: Aurore Thibout
Original Music Composition: Carlos Canales
Sound Design: Hans Kunze
Extract of text : Olivier Remaud, Penser comme un iceberg, Babel poche, 2023, p. 62-63
Voice-over : Millaray Lobos
Sound Manager: Karine Dumont alternating with Hans Kunze or Carlos Canales
Technical Manager: Éric Noël and/or Max Potiron and Robin Noël and/or Vincent Debuire
Assistant Director: Zoé Lizot
Production: Émilie Boutet and Lola Goret
Diffusion Manager: Émilie Boutet
Production: Furinkaï Company - Satchie Noro and Théâtre de l’Entrouvert - Élise Vigneron
Co-producers: Théâtre le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI – Villefontaine (38), Théâtre de Châtillon (92), Les Noctambules (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-Bruyère-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)
With support from: DRAC Île de France, DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, National Creation Aid for Street and Circus Arts, Région Sud, City of Paris. And: Vélo Théâtre in Apt (84), Citron Jaune - CNAREP in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (13), Le Bercail in Dunkerque (59), Groupe F (13)...
‘Aerowaves Twenty26 Artist’: Satchie Noro - Cie Furinkaï and Élise Vigneron - Théâtre de l'Entrouvert have been selected by the European platform Aerowaves for Mizu. Aerowaves is co-funded by the Creative Europe’s Platform Programme for the promotion of emerging artists of the European Union Commission.
CALENDAR 2026
March 28 - Scène 55 à Mougins (06)
April 18 - Festival Le Grand Ménage à Cucuron - La Garance Scène Nationale de Cavaillon (84)
May 2 - L’Atelline – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création, lac du Crès(34)
May 6 & 9 - Festival Spring Forward - Aerowaves, Guimarães (PT)
May 17 - Festival Champs Libre - Atelier à Spectacle, Scène conventionnée d’Intérêt National – Art en Territoire (28)
May 23-24 mai - Théâtre Hendaye (64)
May 30 - Festival iTAK - Le Manège Maubeuge (59)
June 13 - Domaine régional de Villarceaux & the PIVO (95)
Tanec Praha Dance Festival (CZ)
> June 16 20:30, Zdiby, Vltavské tůně
> June 18 19:30 Varnsdorf, Varnsdorfský rybník
> June 20 17:00 Pilsen, Košutecké jezírko
> June 22 Ostrava, Ostravica River
June 29-30 Bilboko Kalealdia, Bilbao (ES)
July 19 - CDDV Valréas (84)
August 13 - Éclat(s) de rue 2026, Caen (14)
August 15-16 - Festival International des arts de la rue de Chassepierre (BE)
Sept. 19 - Ville de Saclay (91)
Sept. 26-27 - Les Quinconces & L'Espal, Le Mans (72) & La Flèche
Oct. 18 - Week-end Gare d'eau, Lille (59)
2025
May 6 - PREMIÈRE - Théâtre Le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI (38)
May 14 - Vélo Théâtre, Apt (84)
May 17 - Le Sémaphore, Port de Bouc (13), Festival le Train Bleu
May 23 - Biennale internationale des arts de la marionnette & Théâtre du Fil de l’Eau, Pantin (93)
May 25 - Houdremont Centre culturel de La Courneuve (93)
May 28 - Le Citron Jaune CNAREP de Port Saint Louis du Rhône & festival de la Camargue (13)
June 7-8 - Festival tous dehors, La Passerelle, Scène Nationale de Gap (05)
June 12 >14 - Art’R (75) & Théâtre de Châtillon, Paris (92)
June 27 - Festival Par has’Art ! - Les Passerelles, Pontault Combault (77)
June 29 - Domaine départemental de Chamarande (91)
July 4 - Les Tombées de la nuit, Rennes (35)
July 17 > 20 - Festival Chalon dans la Rue, Chalon sur Saône (71)
Sept. 6 - Festival la Grande Balade (28)
Sept. 11 - Internationales Basler Figurentheater Festival BAFF, Basel (CH)
Sept. 14 - Cergy - Soit, Osny (95)
Sept. 20-21 - Cergy - Soit, Cergy (95)
Sept. 23 > 25 - Festival Mondial de Théâtre de marionnettes (08)
Oct. 4 - Festival Artonov, Bruxelles (BE)
Oct 19-20 - Festival Ribambelle & Théâtre Joliette, Marseille (13)
Credits : Photos JM Coubart / Video : Francois Combin - Urubu production