A nine-metre body made from newsprint wakes slowly in the square. It remembers every hand that folded it.
Reserve this performance ↗6th international edition
The international biennale of contemporary puppetry & moving forms.
PULL
Four days for objects
with other plans.
18—21 September
2026
Objects in revoltStrings attachedSmall gods, tall shadowsHands become weather
01 / Premise
When the hand disappears, the object begins.
PULL gathers 27 companies that refuse the border between the living and the made. Across four days, paper breathes, furniture argues, shadows grow teeth, and the oldest theatre technology on earth becomes startlingly new.
02 / String study
Your pull.
Drag the acid disc. See how little it takes to make matter feel alive.
Input: touch / pointerSpecimen 06—B
03 / Programme
Four stages.
No actors required.
Domestic furniture performs a dark, funny revolt in this wordless miniature for twelve hands and one badly behaved chair.
Reserve this performance ↗Silk, pulleys, and live percussion assemble a creature in real time—then ask the audience to teach it how to move.
Reserve this performance ↗A lantern-lit procession closes the biennale. Bring a small object; by nightfall, it will have a second life.
Reserve this performance ↗No actors.
All alive.
The hands
behind the matter.
27 companies / 14 countries / one unruly family
001Compagnie MueLyon, FR
002Mina ValeKyoto, JP
003Ombre PortéeDakar, SN
004Teatro NudoOaxaca, MX
005Things Like UsLeeds, UK