PUPPY-PLAY
For the love of playing, how far can we direct and allow ourselves to be directed?
How far can we consent?
Are there limits, perhaps slippery ones?
Can we exceed them, or even reverse them?
And to what degree is the audience complicit, active or passive?
PUPPY-PLAY is an agility performance in which Dylan Poletti is up to anything to embody the desire of his director, Nina Negri.
In the era of #MeToo and the deluge of testimonies of abuse in performing arts, Dylan and Nina explore different temporalities of violence, challenging and subverting the mechanisms of power and domination inherent in the director/actor relationship.
Concept, direction and writing: Nina Negri
Performing and co-writing: Dylan Poletti
Dramaturgie and co-writing: Marion Stoufflet
Visual creation: Chaïm Vischel
Choreography: Isam Del Carmen Abad Montalvo
Original music: Boris Boublil, Nounoute
Artistic collaboration: Agathe Hazard Raboud
Assistant: Charline Curtelin
Vocal coaching: Béatrice Nani
Lights and subtitles: Charlotte Roche-Meredith
Sound: Nounoute
Stage management: Alexandrine Marquet
Production and administration: Cie AlmaVenus, Manon Monnier
Co-production: La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Association de Circonstances, Les Scènes du Grütli
Distribution: Tristan Barani
Communication and teaser: Wolfgang Natlacen
Photo credits: Manuele Geromini, Sébastien Moritz
ON TOUR:
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève from 3 to 7 September 2025 >> www.batie.ch/fr/programme/six-six-nina-negri-dylan-poletti
How far can we consent?
Are there limits, perhaps slippery ones?
Can we exceed them, or even reverse them?
And to what degree is the audience complicit, active or passive?
PUPPY-PLAY is an agility performance in which Dylan Poletti is up to anything to embody the desire of his director, Nina Negri.
In the era of #MeToo and the deluge of testimonies of abuse in performing arts, Dylan and Nina explore different temporalities of violence, challenging and subverting the mechanisms of power and domination inherent in the director/actor relationship.
Concept, direction and writing: Nina Negri
Performing and co-writing: Dylan Poletti
Dramaturgie and co-writing: Marion Stoufflet
Visual creation: Chaïm Vischel
Choreography: Isam Del Carmen Abad Montalvo
Original music: Boris Boublil, Nounoute
Artistic collaboration: Agathe Hazard Raboud
Assistant: Charline Curtelin
Vocal coaching: Béatrice Nani
Lights and subtitles: Charlotte Roche-Meredith
Sound: Nounoute
Stage management: Alexandrine Marquet
Production and administration: Cie AlmaVenus, Manon Monnier
Co-production: La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Association de Circonstances, Les Scènes du Grütli
Distribution: Tristan Barani
Communication and teaser: Wolfgang Natlacen
Photo credits: Manuele Geromini, Sébastien Moritz
ON TOUR:
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève from 3 to 7 September 2025 >> www.batie.ch/fr/programme/six-six-nina-negri-dylan-poletti