Hélène Patarot

In her residency project, Hélène Patarot explores the memory of her father's life in a French military school in Vietnam in 1939. The initiative came from a recording that Patarot created 18 years ago, in which she interviewed her father about his experiences as a child in the French military [...]

Through this playful, imaginative, and process-driven workshop the students will combine acting, writing and directing as they develop stories using elements from their own life, specifically based on objects they share with the group that have special meaning for them (such as family photographs, diaries and letters, clothes, personal treasures, [...]