Philippe Genty

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Philippe Genty (* 1938 ) is a French puppeteer and stage illusionist .

Life

Genty was born in 1938 and had a difficult childhood and school years. Before he took up puppetry, he studied applied arts for a year at a design school in Paris. In 1961 he won a scholarship advertised by Publicis and went on a trip around the world the following year with his friend Yves Brugnier in a Citroën 2CV ("duck") to present his first puppet piece for children called Alexander's Expedition . In total, he traveled four continents, forty-seven countries and nine deserts for four years. He then made a film about puppet theaters from all over the world as part of the UNESCO project Orient - Occident . In order to be able to realize his own performances completely independently, the dramaturge founded the Compagnie de Philippe Genty in 1968 , whose founding members included the choreographer and his future wife Mary Underwood . Theater and television appearances followed in the years to come, and the first world tours in the late 1970s. In 1980, together with Mary Underwood, he developed Rond com un cube (round like a cube), the first of all forthcoming productions, which from then on made use of an enigmatic and soon typical visual dream vocabulary for Genty.

For 40 years, the “Compagnie de Philippe Genty” has been touring the world with its elaborate productions and, in some years of development work, has repeatedly created outstanding things in the field of visual, non-verbal theater. Its members are recruited from workshops that are held around the world. They not only have to have the ability to be actors, singers, dancers and puppeteers at the same time, but also to prove themselves in perfect interaction with the characters and the technology. Genty's highly dynamic and psychoanalytically motivated imagination theater conveys its associative content with the help of stylistic elements such as spoken theater , modern dance , acrobatics , illusion , black theater and music . A "poetic picture kaleidoscope" unfolds for the viewer with constantly changing perspectives and proportions, the apparent negation of all natural laws and the dreamlike play with the reality of doll and person.

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SURNAME Genty, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French puppeteer and stage illusionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938