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SIDE A > 

Dance / materiel / sound (Premières : november 2024) 3 years and more

Designer and director / Amélie Poirier (Nouveaux Ballets)

Show without text (With the exception of one audio sequence, which we can easily translate).


SIDE B >

Clown / objects and material / documentary theater

(Premières : november 2024) 7 years and more

Designer and director / Amélie Poirier (Nouveaux Ballets)

The show includes some text (The text can be translated live, orally by a local actress at the microphone)


The two sides of the show can be played together or independently.



After the show SCOOOOTCH! (2 years +) created in 2021, Amélie Poirier continues her research into the performative and playful nature of playing with objects in 2 mutually echoing forms for two different age groups.

Inspired in particular by the writings of author Sarah Schulman on relational repair processes, MAGNÉÉÉTIQUE brings that vintage object (unknown to the youngest), the Tape up to date in two different ways.


Side A of the show (3+ years) choreographically stages the power and reconciliation between the two performers. Taking up the supposed musical language of the K7 (play, pause, fast forward, etc.), a whole choreographic vocabulary is brought to life, linked to the vocal score of one of the performers. Like the two poles of a magnet, opposing and attracting, their bodies and presences tell the story of the ties that bind us to others, whether taut or progressively more flexible. Our desire for fusion is revealed, as is our desire for emancipation.
As a climax to this performance, the two performers create a performative orchestra from old tapes machines. Chorality and spatialization are created live with the objects, playing with musical responses in relation to the performers' movements.



MAGNÉÉÉTIQUE's Side B (7+) is a solo performance by actress/clown Marjorie Efther. This time, the K7 appears as a medium for oral archives, a way of summoning both memory and documentary theater. Mired in they everyday objects, locked in an interior they doesn't want to leave, they seems to be looking for resources to repair past conflictual relationships. Through a documentary work that aims to reflect on our “ghost archives” (those archives that administrations ignore), the aim is to observe our ways of relating to others and repairing relationships that seem to be breaking down. Apologizing and daring to be vulnerable. In collaboration with clown Marjorie Efther, we're also putting laughter back at the heart of the crisis. How can humor support us and cut short conflict?



> Full length video on request



Side A >  Teaser

Side B >  Teaser (in french)

Side A >  (c) Frédéric Iovino

Side B >  (c) Frédéric Iovino

Season 25-26/


> August 31 and september 1 2025 /

Kunstfest, Weimar (Germany) SIDE A

August 31: 15:00

September 1 : 11:00 / 17:00


> October 16 to 20 2025 /

Théâtre Massalia, Marseille,SIDES A and B

October 16 : 14:30 SIDE B

October 17 : 9:45/14:30 SIDE B

October 18: 19:00 SIDE B

October 19 : 11:00/17:00 SIDE A

October 20 : 10:00/16:00 SIDE A


> October 22 2025 /

La Barcarolle, St Omer SIDE A

11:00/15:00


> October 24 2025 / Cultural Center Area,

Aire-sur-la-Lys, SIDES A and B

11:00 SIDE A, 15:00 SIDE B


> November 20 to 22 2025 /

Tanssiteatteri Hurjaruuth, Helsinki, Finlande SIDE A

November 20 : 10:00/17:00

November 21 : 10:00 (option)

November 22 : 13:00/15:00


> January 16 2026 / Théâtre à la Coque,

National Center for Puppetry Arts, Hennebont SIDE B

14:30/20:00


> January 29 and 30 2026 /

Theater the Palace, Montataire SIDES A and B

January 29 : 10:00/14:30 SIDE B

January 30 : 10:00/14:30 SIDE A


> February 10 2026 /

Théâtre le Grand Bleu, Lille SIDE B

On-site at Lille-Sequedin prison


> March 3 and 4 2026 /

Le Sablier : National Center for Puppetry arts, Ifs SIDES A and B

March 3: 10:00 SIDE A, 14:00 SIDE B

March 4 : 15:00 SIDE A, 19:00 SIDE B


> March 5 and 6 2026 /

Théâtre le Passage, Fécamp SIDE B

March 5 : 14:30

March 6 : 14:30/19:00


> March 10 to 14 2026 /

National Stage of Angoulême

Festival la tête dans les nuages SIDE B


> may 26 /

options > Québec SIDE A


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Previous tours

Season 24-25


Festival Forever Young, Loon Plage and CDCN le Gymnase, Roubaix

Ad Hoc festival, National Stage : le Volcan, Le Havre

Le Vivat : scène conventioned stage, Armentières

La Licorne Theater, Cannes

Durance Theater : national stage, Château-Arnoux

Grasse Theater

Théâtre de l'Olivier, Istres

Points Communs : National Stage, Cergy-Pontoise

Visages du Monde, Cergy-Pontoise

Le Phénix : National Stage, Valenciennes

Festival Mélimômes, Reims, SIDE A

Le Bateau Feu : National Stage, Dunkerque

Operaestate Festival,Bassano del Grappa (Italia)  


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MAGNÉÉÉÉTIQUE ! (2024)

SIDE A premières > november 16 

Festival Forever Young

SIDE B premières > november 30

Festival ad Hoc, Le Volcan, National Stage, le Havre


Designer and director / Amélie Poirier


Set design / Philémon Vanorlé 


Sound design /

Mariane Berthault and David Bultel > SIDE A

Léonore Mercier > SIDE B


Light design/ Henri-Emmanuel Doublier


Artistic collaboration and stage management /

Audrey Robin 


Artistic collaboration and costumes /

Vaïssa Favereau


Performers : 

SIDE A :

Laure Desplan and Céline Lefèvre

accompanied by Audrey Robin


SIDE B :

Marjorie Efther accompanied by Audrey Robin


Tour Booker / Claire Girod


Administrator / Frédérique Rebergue


Coproduction / La Minoterie Scène conventionnée of Dijon, Le Volcan : National Stage of Le Havre, CDCN le Gymnase :Roubaix, 9.9 Bis : Oignies, La Tribu (a scheme to support the creation of shows for young audiences in south-east France), Points Communs : national stage of Cergy-Pontoise. 


Support / French Ministry of Culture in Hauts-de-France, Région Hauts-de-france, Département of the Pas-de-Calais, l'ADAMI, Culture Commune : national stage of Bassin Minier, Le Bateau Feu : national stage of Dunkerque, Le Vivat : scène conventionnée of Armentières,Le Théâtre à la coque : National Center for Puppet arts of Hennebont.


Production / Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais (FR)







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