Collaborateurs artistiques

Pedro Her­melin Vélez is a Franco-Colom­bi­an pup­pet­eer. After two years in a lit­er­ary pre­par­at­ory class, he dis­covered pup­petry dur­ing a mas­ter­class led by Yngvild Aspeli at the École Jacques Lecoq. He then trained in this prac­tice at the Con­ser­vatoire de Clamart the fol­low­ing year. He sub­sequently joined the 13^th cohort (2021–2024) of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Mari­on­nette (ESNAM). Dur­ing his stud­ies, he developed an interest in the ques­tion of abjec­tion, par­tic­u­larly the rela­tion­ship between bod­ies, food, and edible pup­pets. For his third-year solo at ESNAM, Fear of Fall­ing (Fail­ing), he worked from his fear of fall­ing and his prac­tice of skate­board­ing. He dis­covered the work of the asso­ci­ation Os through Juste Cam­ille, a piece by Gaëlle Bourges in which he per­formed along­side sev­en fel­low stu­dents from his cohort. Upon gradu­at­ing, he worked as a pup­pet­eer under the dir­ec­tion of Yngvild Aspeli for the show Trust Me for a While, as part of the Passe-Murailles #3 pro­gramme at the CDN de Dijon. He per­formed once again for Gaëlle Bourges in Guil­laume & Har­old, a piece cre­ated as part of the Col­lec­tion tout-ter­rain of the Centre Choré­graph­ique Nation­al de Caen en Nor­man­die, at the invit­a­tion of Alban Richard.