A participatory project/performance by Elise Vigneron with a group of up to 40 people -- and feet cast in ice. “Traces” represents a human community, featuring thirty participants of all ages, through the image of a choir made of ice feet. A plastic and choreographic project that connects us and makes us sensitive to the world we live in. Through an ephemeral and collective performance conceived for a public space, Elise Vigneron in collaboration with circus artist Eleonora Gimenez questions the ecological stakes and the traces left by human beings as they pass through the world. The participants, their feet cast in ice by the artistic team, are the actors of this choreographed installation. The singularity of each member, their bodies and the individual stories, form a chorus and discover their collective identity. The ice mirrors the fragility of the world and its transformation into water, the ephemeral nature of human experience and narrative.

Trained in visual arts, theatre and circus, Elise Vigneron attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières and graduated with honors in 2005. From 2005 to 2011, she worked as a puppeteer and set designer for the company Le Théâtre de Nuit directed by Aurélie Morin. She then joined the Vélo Théâtre, where she created the solo work Traversées, before founding Théâtre de L’Entrouvert in 2010. Since then, she has created many works, at her own theatre and in association with Espace Jéliote, TJP, CDN Strasbourg Grand-Est, Marseille’s Théâtre du Gymnase, for the 2019 Avignon Festival, Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune in Aix-en-Provence, the Théâtre Joliette in Marseille, among others.