The Team

Marie-Jeanne studied sewing in Paris (DTMS – Lycée Paul Poiret) and worked as a costume designer in the performing arts. After an apprenticeship with Erick Plaza-Cochet, a costume and lighting designer, Marie-Jeanne turned towards lighting. She obtained a Diploma in Arts and Crafts with a specialization in Lighting, and began working with dance, clown, and theater companies as a stage manager and lighting designer: Afag, Des pieds des mains, Téatron, Théâtre en kit, Enfant phare, etc. She simultaneously works for various venues and festivals (Théâtre du Saulcy, Le NEST – CDN de Thionville, Théâtre municipal de Thionville, Espace Alya Avignon, Teksas, Centre Pompidou). Since 2016, Marie-Jeanne has joined the company La Bande Passante as a general stage manager and lighting designer.

It was during a BTS in spatial design in Marseille that she discovered scenography and moved towards a bachelor’s degree in performing arts in Aix-en-Provence. Working on light and lighting emerged as one of the tools for creating space, and even after a master’s degree in scenography in Metz, she works as much on set design (Cie Divine comédie, Cie histoire d’Eux, Lux Salina, plastic installation projects…) as on lighting (Cie La Bande Passante, Cie histoire d’Eux, Espace Bernard-Marie Koltès…); always in the service of the performance space. Since her master’s, puppetry and questions of scale regularly question her experience of scenography both on a theoretical level (thesis, research residency) and practical level (design and construction of sets).

Born in 1992 in Montpellier, Sophie Aptel moved to Nancy in 2011 for 2 years of sound engineering studies. This was followed by a year in Quebec, where she took over stage management for youth theater companies, and organized the tour of a storytelling and legend festival at the end of the north coast. Back in Nancy since 2015, she works mainly in theater, venue hosting, creations, and tours, as well as on theater, circus, and street art festivals. In 2017, she and 5 sidekicks set up the Nouvel An Boukrave, an Eastern European music festival off the coast of Metz.

After studying foreign languages in Strasbourg, she moved to Berlin in 1995. There, she began working in the audiovisual sector as a production manager for documentaries, reports, and fiction feature films. She also worked as an assistant director for short films and music videos. Since 2003, she has lived in Paris where, alongside her activity in film production, she directs her own documentary films: All I Wanna Do (2010), Mais comment t’as fait, Mathieu Boogaerts ? (52’, 2012), Il était cinq heures dix, Bertrand Belin (50’, 2014), Albin de la Simone, Images Fantômes (50’, 2016), L, sur son île (50′, 2018), Fauré, Baum et les autres (60′, 2018). In 2017, she joined La Bande Passante with her camera to begin the crazy adventure of Vies de Papier.

Born in Bordeaux in 1987, Thomas grew up alongside the development of digital technologies. The Internet, computers, cameras, and camcorders were territories of experimentation from the start. Passionate about cinema, he has always had a very strong connection to the moving image. His attraction to science led him to begin a scientific path before joining an art school where he was able to fully experiment with video. Graduating with a DNSEP in 2011, he is an active and founding member of the artists’ association Multi-Prises (2012-2019) and works regularly with l’Œil d’Oodaaq, an association in Rennes for video art and nomadic images. His projects in France and abroad have allowed him to experiment with digital tools through video, projection mapping, installation, and even sculpture. In 2016, after 2 years of work, he created an experimental video game, Naufrage, in collaboration with a musician and two writers. In 2023, he co-directed the web-documentary site Devenir(s) with La Bande Passante.

It all started at the Comédie de Caen in the 80s where he stayed for ten years. He continued lighting design with very diverse artists and companies, particularly in theater. He has been a loyal accomplice to Pierre Guillois since Roméo et Juliette created in 1993 at the Hôpital Ephémère, and has also worked with Etienne Pommeret (Jon Fosse, Kafka, Peter Handke), Jean-Pierre Larroche (Le Concile d’Amour, an opera by Michel Mussau) and Laurence Février (Suzanne, une femme remarquable). He collaborated with Cécile Backès (King Kong Théorie by Virginie Despentes) directed in Epinal in 2009 where he met Benoît Faivre who was then the sound designer. He also collaborates with David Ayala (Scanner, based on texts by Guy Debord). He has done numerous creations with Jacques Bioulès at the Théâtre du Hangar in Montpellier. Little by little, his work moved towards object theater and puppetry with, among others, Jean-Pierre Larroche, Alice Laloy, Bérangère Vantusso…

After studying fashion and a brief stint in luxury tailoring, notably at Chanel, Daniel Trento chose in 1996 to turn to costume design for the performing arts. Trained at the Opéra du Rhin, he began working in Lorraine with the companies TMM Cie Jean Poirson, Cie la Balestra, Les Crieurs de nuits, and from 1997, with the Théâtre du Centaure in Luxembourg. As a visual artist, he also works for set decorators like Jacques Griesemer (Pierre de culture), takes charge of the realization of Daniel Jassogne’s creations for the Théâtre des Capucins in Luxembourg, and those of Jeanny Kratochwil. Today enriched with a higher national diploma in theater arts and techniques (ENSATT Lyon), he continues his companionship with S.O.U.P.E Cie, Cie des bestioles, Cie Deracinemoa, Les fruits du hasard. During 2015, a new collaboration with Delphine Bardot also gave pride of place to the co-writing and scenography of l’Un dans l’Autre by Cie la Mue/tte, as well as Les Folles in 2017, which allowed him to further develop the notion of Body/costume/puppet theater. Since 2012, he has been working with paper material. Daniel has thus designed and created several prototypes of PopUp puppet stages, for S.O.U.P.E cie and in upcoming collaborations with Cie La Bande Passante.

A multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, passionate about free and open music, Gabriel attended the Amnéville music conservatory for ten years in the piano, transverse flute, and cello classes. In 2003, he met the company La Valise (theater/puppetry/circus) for whom he composed about ten soundtracks. From 2007, he collaborated with multiple companies (dance, street arts, circus, theater, puppetry…) and performed his own compositions for most of the shows (Cie La Vouivre, Carabosse, Les Fruits du Hasard, Anomalie, Azimut, Caliband Théâtre, Volubilis, M.O#Cie). In 2010, he founded the company Blah Blah Blah with Claire Girod, focusing on free and quirky live music. The company’s repertoire includes, among other things, shows for toddlers, participatory horn concerts, and sonic naps. In 2017, he composed the soundtrack for Vies de Papier.

It was in 2001, at the age of 10, that Guillaume discovered the audiovisual world through an extracurricular workshop. In the following years, he taught himself to master framing, special effects, and post-production tools. From 2009 to 2014, he participated in about thirty video competitions to perfect his technique. He won about ten for national companies such as Macif, Editions Dunod, Crous, and Eurostar. In 2014, with his bachelor’s degree in Performing and Audiovisual Arts in hand, he decided to start out as a freelance videographer. Today, his work focuses on documentaries and advertising. But also on animated graphic design, through which he develops installations between 2D animation and projection mapping. Finally, he teaches in schools, in a training organization for photographers, and at the University of Metz to pass on his passion for animated images.

In her career as a dancer, Leila enjoys working on very diverse projects: as a performer for contemporary dance or street arts companies (Cie S.Marcelino, Cie l’Astragale, Cie Assolatelier, Cie Man’ok, Cie Rumba des pinceaux, Cie La Torpille, Cie Flex, etc.). She often favors “multidisciplinary” projects in collaboration with musicians, actors, visual artists… as well as outdoor “in situ” actions.
A state-certified contemporary dance teacher, Leila offers various educational interventions ranging from dancer training to choreographic creations with diverse actors: teacher at the dance school of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine, trainer/instructor at the IRTS (social workers), choreographer for socio-cultural and event projects, etc. Leila is a member of the SCIC “Autrement dit”: a collective of artists working with people who are disabled or made vulnerable by their living conditions.

Trained in classical and contemporary dance and a graduate of the Theater Academy of Iasi, her Romanian hometown, she arrived in Lorraine in 2005. The crossroads between different cultures and different paths have always been a source of inspiration for her, a driving force in her creative process during the work she has done with companies including: La Smalah, La Mazurka du Sang Noir, Le Fil Rouge Théâtre, 4L12, La Valise, Tiramisu Cie, Guillaume Weis Dance People, Le Plateau Ivre, Cie Azimuts… Since 2010 she has also played Giselle, a hospital clown for Le Rire Médecin.

A teacher of Literature and Theater in Arras, Isabelle places the encounter of classes with the performing arts and its various actors at the heart of her teaching, through partnerships and projects mixing reading, writing, and performance. She is commissioned by the Regional Academic Delegation for Arts and Cultural Education (Lille) to a national stage – the Tandem Arras-Douai – and within the Academic Commission for the Monitoring of Theater Teaching and Activities (CASEAT). She also supports teams in the Artois-Ternois area as part of the deployment of the Pass Culture. It was during a school performance in 2018 that she discovered the show Vies de papier and an artistic approach that particularly resonated with her sensitivity to History, archives, and their echoes on stage. On the occasion of the creation of Devenir, she co-wrote with Benoît Faivre the dossier gathering all the educational resources intended for teachers around this show.