Pier Porcheron

Artistic Director
 

At the Poitiers Conservatory where I graduated in 2008 with a DNOP (National Diploma of Professional Orientation) in dramatic art, I played under the direction of Etienne Pommeret, Jean Boillot, Agnès Delhume, Jacques David, Jacques Vincet. I received teaching there from Marc Proux, Allan Fairban, Bertrand Bossart, Claire Lasnes Darcueil, Jean Marie Villegier.

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During my studies, I met Louise Lapointe (Director of the Maison Internationale de la Marionnette) during an exchange with the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Montreal. She took me on as an assistant in the making of leather masks for the Conservatory of Dramatic Art the year I left school. She introduced me to the world of Quebec puppetry.

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After playing a wonderful show put on by Claire Lasne Darcueil, one of those who mark a life, I went to join Agnès Zacharie in Quebec City and her company, the Ubus Théâtre. From that moment on, a whole bunch of boundaries between theater, puppetry, scenography and staging collapsed or rather mingled to allow me to do my theater. 

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There I got to know Francis Monty and the theater of the Pire Espèce. With the help of Francis Monty's gaze, I finished building my first show, Something Is Rotten! Hamlet in Object Theater. I had another important meeting there, that of Fabrice Tremblay. Then I returned to France after three years and I founded the company Elvis Alatac. Since then, there has been Petite Neige, Première Neige, En Difficulté… so many shows that are different and at the same time imbued with the same touch. Each show is the starting point for another. Each has in him the beginning of the next. Since then I have defined myself as a show author.

Julie Reynard

Administrative Management

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My name is Julie Reynard, I have lived in Poitiers for 20 years.

I work in the culture sector, I went through several institutions and associations in Poitiers and I am now self-employed by offering management and administration services to cultural players and more specifically for entertainment companies living via  JR Company .

I like to see culture as a right in its daily practice , in the exchange of experiences  that it brings as a means of emancipation  for all.

I have always had questions about the idea of ​​individual power and how we allow personal ambitions to be carried out in defiance of the common good. In 2011, during a professional experience in Quebec, I discovered  cooperatives  and I saw them as a way to promote collective work  within an organization. I pushed this reflection on collective work in a cooperative by obtaining a  master's degree in managing organizations with a social and cultural vocation  at the CNAM in Paris in 2017.