The Company
The Lorraine-based company La Mue/tte brings together actress and puppeteer Delphine Bardot and Santiago Moreno, a musician and puppeteer of Argentinian origin. Since 2014, they have created eight shows and invented a visual and musical theater that gives voice to both the body and objects to question gender relations, power, and violence.
While Delphine Bardot, with the principle of the puppet-woman, digs a puppet language of her own, Santiago Moreno, in echo, develops variations around the figure of the one-man band and the notion of the musical body.
La Mue/tte est compagnie associée au Mouffetard, Centre national de la marionnette de Paris de 2022 à 2025. Elle est conventionnée par la Région Grand Est et la DRAC Grand Est et bénéficie de leur soutien financier.
The team
Artistic direction
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Delphine BARDOT
Actress, puppeteer, visual artist, trainer, director and co-artistic director of La Mue/tte and the ViVES festival.
Delphine Bardot explored puppetry and its range of possibilities with several companies in the Grand Est region for 15 years.
Within LA SOUPE Cie, she develops personal work around the relationship between the body and the object as in shows Vanity, Under the Petticoat And Body Building. Already, she experiments with and articulates notions specific to contemporary puppetry such as the puppet theatre body, the segmented body, metamorphosis, somewhere between the illusion of life and mirage.
In 2014, she founded La Mue/tte Company with Santiago Moreno. She anchors these different artistic axes and enriches them with research on the relationship between sound and image, the musicality of gesture, and the choreographic score of the puppet and the puppeteer. She is committed to a dreamlike writing without words, tinged with poetic violence in the service of militant subjects.
She is co-director and performer in the shows One in the other, The Crazy Ones, Fais-moi mâle And Battre encore, Soledad and builds the puppets and scenographic elements. She accompanies Santiago Moreno on the variations around L'Homme-Orchestre.
She develops a work of transmission through workshops for children and adolescents and supervises internships for professionals or the public in the process of professionalization (Conservatory, University of Lorraine, LEM, CNMa Le Mouffetard, Théâtre Roublot).
At the same time, she continues her collaborations with other companies in construction, direction of manipulation and co-staging (Cies Hold up, Pezize, Omnibus, Neige Scariot, Giovanni Zazzera, Paul-Émile Fourny – Opéra de Metz, Scopitone&Cie, Via Verde, and Cie Les Bestioles).
Since 2022, she has initiated, co-organized, and co-programmed the ViVES festival, supported by Mue/tte. It is a natural and militant extension of the feminist approach engaged in the company's creations: offering a time to raise awareness of feminist creators and infusing progressive notions among audiences. It is also a way to anchor the company's work in the Nancy area by bringing together various institutions, partner venues, and local community initiatives.
Santiago MORENO
Musician and puppeteer
Musicien et marionnettiste d’origine Argentine, il vit actuellement en France. Il est co-fondateur du groupe musical italo-argentin Appeared et de la Compagnie de théâtre de marionnettes Dromosofista, with the show The Free Cube (tournées internationales en festival de rue). Il collabore avec plusieurs compagnies du Grand Est (la SOUPE Cie, Cie Blah Blah Blah).
Au sein de la compagnie La Mue/tte, Santiago Moreno explore la notion de corps-musiquant. Il axe ses recherches autour de la figure de l’Homme-Orchestre et de la dissociation du musicien, en lien avec les principes de manipulation. Il est à l’origine de toutes les créations musicales des spectacles de La Mue/tte et est co-metteur en scène, interprète, et fabrique les marionnettes dans L’Un dans l’autre, The Crazy Ones And Soledad. Marionnette, masque, théâtre d’ombre ou d’objet et musique sud-américaine, sont autant de techniques déployées dans tous ses spectacles. Il joue en tout lieu et pour tous les publics. De la forme intimiste au concert de rue tonitruant, en passant par les grands plateaux, comme Soledad, créé en avril 2025 et coécrit et mis en scène aux côtés de Delphine Bardot et Benoit Dattez.
Parallèlement à ses créations personnelles, Santiago Moreno participe à un trio d’hommes-orchestres international, Oktopus Orkestars, en collaboration avec Martin Kaspar (La Pendue) et Karl Stets ansi qu’au groupe de musique OURK avec Gabriel Fabing et Joël Lattanzio.
Par ailleurs, il prépare avec toute son équipe une sortie de disque, Muda, compilant les meilleurs morceaux de son répertoire.
Diffusion, production
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Elora GIRODON
Broadcast Manager
Passionate about the world of entertainment from a young age, Elora began volunteering at street arts festivals at the age of 16. Her many experiences led her to meet some wonderful people and allowed her to learn a lot by working with others. During her Bachelor's degree in Cultural Studies and her University Diploma in Theater at the University of Lorraine, Elora completed numerous internships, notably in organizations such as the Tours Opera, the CCAM - Scène Nationale de Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (where she would later work) but also in festivals and companies, particularly with the circus Cogs and the company The Jaw 36. Trained in production and broadcasting since 2019, Elora is also a production manager for companies The Fruits of Chance And Bruniak. The latest arrival in the company, she is delighted to have joined The Moult/head in March 2024!
Claire GIROD
Production and design managers, ViVES festival programming
After a Masters in Political Science (SciencesPo Grenoble) and another in Cultural Engineering (IUP Dijon), Claire has now been supporting the development of companies with renewed enthusiasm for twenty years.
She currently co-directs the company Blah Blah Blah Cie (Metz) with Gabriel Fabing, directs the productions of La Mue/tte directed by Delphine Bardot and Santiago Moreno (Nancy) and accompanies Simon Delattre (Rodéo Théâtre), Amélie Poirier (Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord Pas de Calais), Antoine Defoort (L'Amicale) and Perrine Maurin (Les Patries Imaginaires) in distribution.
Along with two colleagues from La Mue/tte, she is leading the programming for ViVES – a feminist creations festival in Nancy, a step aside that allows for direct proximity with the public to share its values with them and honor powerful and inspiring creators.
She also holds the responsibility of transmitting knowledge: she has developed a support system for young administrative professionals within THEMAA, given production courses in the Professional Licence program at the Faculty of Metz, worked at ESNAM in Charleville-Mézières and within the Fluxus system of the Grand Est Cultural Agency, and more recently within the framework of Info Conseil Culture run by Artenréel in Strasbourg.
She is one of the 5 members of Bien Cordialement – an informal collective based in Bliiida – Metz which, in addition to working together, works to share and transmit expertise, knowledge and thoughts around the performing arts sector, to give rise to new initiatives in a spirit of solidarity and dynamism.
Communication, administration
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Sandrine HERNANDEZ
Head of communications within the La Muette company and co-organization and co-programming of the ViVES festival
After working for ten years as a production and distribution manager in contemporary dance and then exclusively in puppetry and its associated forms, Sandrine trained in web design, graphic design and editorial techniques. She then developed more specifically communication tools and media, always serving the dissemination of artistic projects.
From 2018 to 2021, she worked with the Bande Passante company, continued her collaboration in communication with the RoiZIZO theater, joined the Bakélite company in 2020 then the Rodéo Théâtre in 2024.
In addition to her professional responsibilities, Sandrine is involved locally in the associative, cultural, and activist life of the Morbihan region where she lives. In 2021, she co-wrote a cultural project to create a third-place, La Fraîche, of which she will be an active member from 2022 to 2024. With a whole team, she offers a cultural program that she develops with local associations. Nine events have taken place at this venue. From the feminist event (with awareness of sexist and sexual violence, activist artistic practices, and feminine and feminist artistic programming) to festive and musical events, including film screenings on urban cultures, it is always with attention, commitment, and pedagogy that she ensures parity in the artistic and technical teams and calls for kindness in audiences.
In 2023, she is training to "organize a welcoming, inclusive and safe festival" - a training course that addresses important topics such as accessibility for people with disabilities, reducing risks related to parties, preventing sexist and sexual violence, and interacting with audiences.
Aurélie BURGUN
Administrative Officer
An administrative officer and production assistant, Aurélie has been collaborating with companies for over 10 years. After nine years with Cie La Valise, she joined the teams of Blah Blah Blah, La Mue/tte, and La Bande Passante, all based in Lorraine, in 2015.
Technical
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Vincent FROSSARD
Technical Manager
Set designer, stage or lighting manager, general manager, it doesn't matter what role he holds as long as he participates in a collective creative adventure.
Supporting artists in the accomplishment of their projects is his driving force and this place in the shadows suits him well.
After studying performing arts in Lyon, he joined the Luc Amoros company, continued his apprenticeship with training as a stagehand at the ISTS in Avignon and for 20 years he has alternated between rural and international tours.
In 2021, a new collaboration with Mue/tte begins.
The MUE/TTE Company is also:
An association office with:
a president: Sylvie Drouant • a treasurer: Natacha Renault • a secretary: Myriam Boufatis
Regular artistic collaborations with:
playwrights and outside perspectives : Samuel Beck • Benoit Dattez • Jacoppo Faravelli • Nicole Mossoux-Bonté • Pauline Thimonnier • Pierre Tual
interpreters : Bernadette Ladener • Alexandre Lipaux • Amélie Patard • Émeline Thierion
a costume designer : Daniel Trento
musicians : Gabriel Fabing • Martin Kaspar • Karl Stets
sound and light designers : Floxel Barbelli • Joël Fabing • Frédéric Toussaint
a sound and light director : Charline Dereims
builders and scenographers : Lucie Cunningham • Carole Nobiron
graphic designers and illustrators : Eloïse Coussy • Marine Drouard • Carlos Lalvay Estrada • Sophie Lécuyer • Amélie Marié – Mounkat
a web developer : Marine Drouard
photographers : Frédéric Allegrini • Patrick Argirakis • Marine Drouard • Kalimba • Susy La Grange • Virginie Meigné • Lucile Nabonnand
videographers : • Claire Dietrich • Marine Drouard • Manon Heugel • Vincent Tournaud
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