Three years on stage

Septembre 2014 : Emma vient d'entrer à l'école du Théâtre National de Strasbourg, qui permet à de futurs comédien.ne.s, scénographes-costumier.e.s, régisseur.e.s et metteur.e.s en scène de se confronter aux réalités des métiers de la scène. Plongés dans le fonctionnement du théâtre au jour le jour, on leur demande de développer des projets de niveau professionnel avec des budgets et des échéances réels. Avec à disposition tout un arsenal de matériel et d'ateliers de construction et de costumes, leurs créations sont ainsi souvent proposées dans la programmation du théâtre. Son personnel est enfin quotidiennement en interaction avec les étudiants, abordant l'enseignement par l'accompagnement au projet.
L'école du TNS c'est flirter avec les emplois du temps de ministres, les horaires décalés, les questionnements sans fin, la réussite dans l'échec, le travail de groupe. Ce sont trois ans de doutes, d'expérimentations et de camaraderie.

J'ai suivi pendant ces trois ans Emma et ses camarades de promo du groupe 43 dans les coulisses de leur formation, en majorité lors des montages de décors et préparatifs de spectacles.

2014 - 2017

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2014 : the four set and costume designer students in flea market with their set design teacher.
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2015 : Bernard supervising a scaffholding delivery for the set of Trust/ Des mots d'occasion. He is in charge for the technical side of students projects.
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Emma at the scaffholding delivery for Trust/ Des mots d'occasion which she designed the set (direction: her colleague Aurélie Droesch). It's her first real set at the TNS.
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Next day at 8 am, Trust technical team is on time for a debrief with Bernard in the school storehouse.
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TNS set technicians help for the building of the set designed by Emma.
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10:30, time for a breakfast break in the technical team room.
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TNS Construction workshop: Salma fireprooves dozens of cardboard boxes for the set of Trust/ Paysages qui attendent de s'effondrer, directed by her colleague Kaspar Tainturier.
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Auréliane (manager student, group 42) adjusts the lights for the set of Trust/Karaoké panoramique, directed by her colleague Maëlle Dequiedt.
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Auréliane and Jori (group 43) seting up the light and sound control desks for Trust/Karaoké panoramique. This show created as a student exercise will be shown in 2017 at the Théâtre de la Cité universitaire in Paris (La Phenomena company).
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Valentin, manager student, on the set building of Trust/ Des mots d'occasion.
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At a building workshop located behind the TNS main stage, Bernard is giving advices to Quentin (manager student) for finishing Emma's set ladders.
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Bernard and Emma fixing wood floor for Trust.
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2016: in front of the sets storehouse, Mathilde (director student, group 42) lets Félicien rehearse his text for the wandering play she's directing called Babil au bord des villes. The actor is paid by the TNS to play in her project.
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Costume tests for Felicien by Léa (group 42 set design and costume student). She collected a no longer usable parachute from a firm which make some.
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Babil au bord des villes show in the old lime quarry in Dannemarie (Alsace). Wandering projects were proposed to group 42 director students in a wish to bring theatre out of cities and to offer it in some places where it usually don't comes.
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Summer 2016: group 43 gets a surprise ready for freshly graduated group 42 who plays their "entry in the business world" -show. Manager students supervise the operations.
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Zacharie, actor student, being maked-up for the party in the school dressing rooms.
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Hélène, actor student, in the party's theme "Wild night".
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Salma dressed up as Rafiki (in Wald Disney's Lion King) baptise the newly graduate students.
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Numerous rituals punctuate the graduation party. Amongst them are the "town criers" who chant some messages left by the theatre staff and the students to the newly graduates.
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An other tradition, a sensory and sound journey inside the school — eyes blindfolded, only guided by their colleagues of group 43.
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Four in the morning: actors from group 42 singing goodbye.
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At dawn, Genséric and Roberto (actor students group 43) at breakfast on the TNS square.
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Groupe 42 hugging.
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End of 2016 : Pauline (actor student) supervises rehearsals of Les Terrains Vagues, a play she writes and directs. Carte blanche direction projects are proposed for actor students in their third year.
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Déa, actor student, plays the opening scene of Les Terrains Vagues.
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July 2107: Emma enjoys a last party before her departure from the TNS.