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On the 25^th May 2023, Paul Piris will be discussing Twin Houses et The Great He-Goat at the 2^nd international Puppetplays conference in Montpellier.
It will be possible to attend the event through videocall.

Since January 2023, the Company is delighted to also be able to give dance workshops for children with autism or other developmental disorders at the Univers du Petit Prince school in Marcinelle thanks to the support of Charleroi danse and of the PECA.

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Les Arrière-Mondes will be performed on the 16th May in Nürnberg as part of the biennial programme. Join us to celebrate 30 years of collaboration, our participation in 12 editions with 14 different productions. 

The Company's administrative team has moved its office into the Théâtre les Tanneurs. 

On the 6^th March 2023, Taylor Lecocq and Nicole Mossoux will be leading a workshop around the production Les Arrière-Mondes that will be performed on the 8^th March at the Théâtre des Quatre Saisons in Gradignan. 
It's open to everyone and free. 
You just need to register in advance via email (spots are limited). 

Following the performances of Les Arrière-Mondes at the Brigittines and Histoire de l'imposture at the Théâtre des Martyrs, Taylor Lecocq and Marco Torrice, who are performers in the two productions, will give a workshop to secondary school students of ARBA on the 14th February 2023 at the Brigittines in Brussels. 

Die Geisterhand will be screened in Cairo (Egypt) on the 15th January 23 at Falaki Theater and on 16th January 23 at the Italian cultural Institute as part of the Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival programme at 7.30 pm.

From the 13th to the 17th March 2023, the Company will host in residency with artistic accompaniment Jan Jedenak for the creation of his next production, Untiefe, that will première on the 14th April 2023 at the Westflügel in Leipzig.

In the context of the interdisciplinary project ‘dialogue between the arts’, the Company will be giving a workshop at the lycée Flaubert school in Rouen on the 12-16^th December 2022 echoing the performance of The Great He-Goat co-hosted on the 20^th January by CDN Normandie-Rouen and Le Rive Gauche in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

After over two years of waiting, we will eventually be performing Whispers at the Westflügel on the 28-29^th October, where you will also be able to catch Die Geisterhand or take part in a workshop about movement and presence taught by Nicole Mossoux from the 30^th October until the 1^st November. 

Die Geisterhand will be screened at the CINEMATEK in Bruxelles on the 30^th September 2022 as part of the 11^th international dancefilmfestival brussels (category "Belgian Beauties"). 

Rebecca Florès-Martinez, who created the wigs, masks and make-up for Les Arrière-Mondes, will be giving a workshop on the 1^st October 2022 at the Escher Theater (Luxemburg) before the performance. With her expert advice,  you will be able to create your own headdress/hairpiece and go back home with it.
The spots are limited, don't forget to tell the theater you want to participate. 

From the 10^th to the 17^th May, the video of "Les Arrière-Mondes" can be streamed at Belgium (Dance Film) Festival organized by SIDance festival and ARKO Theater, in partnership with Seoul Dance Council CID-Unesco and the Embassy of Belgium in Korea. 

The film will then be shown twice a day at Daehakro theater until the 29^th May. 

From the 11^th to the 15^th April 2022, Nicole Mossoux will be accompanying Iranian artist Sayeh Sirvani for the reprise of the production L'ivresse des profondeurs, created at the 2021-edition of Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières.

The Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté is looking for a male dancer to stand in for a performer during the 2022-tours of Les Arrière-Mondes. 

Send your applications by January 2^nd 2022 to info@mossoux-bonte.be enclosing a picture, a resume and a video clip.
If you are shortlisted after a first selection based on these documents, you will be invited to an audition day on January 10^th 2022 from 1pm to 6pm.
Location: Studio l’Envers, 87 rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels

From the 18^th to the 21^th June 2022, Nicole Mossoux will be giving a workshop for professional puppeteers in Turku. This research laboratory will be a step towards the creation of projects that will be presented at TIP-Fest in November 2022. 

On Thursday 11/11/21 at 5pm, Nicole Mossoux and Caroline Bernier-Dionne will be talking about puppets live on Facebook and Youtube. 

Fromt the 1^st to the 5^th November 2021, Agnès Limbos (Cie Gare Centrale) and Nicole Mossoux will lead a workshop for professionals combining dance- and object-theatre at the 19^th International Festival MarionNEttes in Neufchâtel (Switzerland). 

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Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté will take part in the 8th edition of Les rencontres de la Maison Jacques Copeau, dedicated to theatre and dance, in Chorey-lès-Beaune on the 29th and 30th October. 

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The film Die Geisterhand will be screened at NoWHere Film Festival in Siheung (South Korea) from the 20th until the 23rd October 2021, as well as at Motus Imago festival in Aveiro (Portugal) from the 6th until the 13th November 2021.

The movie Light! will be streamed online at SIDance festival in Seoul (South Korea) from the 5th to the 14th November 2021.

After a first outing last February as part of a Still Standing for Culture protest action when we were in the process of creating the piece at Théâtre les Tanneurs, Les Gilles des Arrière-Mondes will step off the stage and into the city on the 16th October at 6pm in Brussels (Anneessens Square) for Danse avec les foules festival. Join us, it’s free !

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Die Geisterhand is part of the online programme of the 2021-edition of FITS festival in Sibiu, Romania.
The film will be available on their streaming platform on the 24^th and 25^th August 2021.

Come and dance with us on Sunday 9^th May 2021 in Brussels (Place des Martyrs).
Follow our 3-step tutorial to learn the choreography. You don't need to be a dancer to nail it! 
Register now by email (billetterie@theatre-martyrs.be), space is limited.
You can then catch the live performance of Histoire de l'imposture at the Théâtre des Martyrs from the 2^nd to the 4^th June 2021. 

The following performance dates have been cancelled or postponed because of the prevention measures against the spread of coronavirus: 
- 26th March 2020 / The Great He-Goat / Dieppe Scène Nationale - Dieppe (France)
- 7-9th May 2020 / The Great He-Goat / FIMFA festival - Lisboa (Portugal)
- 14-15th May 2020 / Whispers / Mukamas Festival - Tampere (Finland)
- 30th October 2020 / Alban / Festival Drama Queer - Bratislava (Slovakia)
- 28-29th January 2021 / Vice Versa / L'Etincelle / Rouen (France)
- 26-27th March 2021 instead of 28-29th May 2020 / Whispers / Westflügel / Leipzig (Germany)
- 29th April 2021 / The Great He-Goat / Equilibre/Nuithonie / Fribourg (Switzerland)