Since June 2025, LE PATIO has been a potential venue for juries of second-year Master’s students from all departments.  In addition, a shared desire to collaborate has emerged with the scenography department: we host third-year Bachelor’s students as part of their end-of-cycle project, which focuses on contemporary puppetry.

Beforehand, a meeting with Ben Nieto took place during his LABO 4 residency at LE PATIO, for an observational drawing session, a tour of LE PATIO (our venue, its specific features, our working tools) and a survey of the studio with a view to building a scale model of the space.

In 2026, as part of LABO 6, the third-year Bachelor’s students are being hosted in residence with choreographer Benoît Nieto Duran: taking Jean Genêt’s work “Le Funambule” as their starting point, they will carry out a phase of research and construction of volumes/structures to be manipulated by the students, from the outside and perhaps from the inside – mobile elements that extend the body or inhabit the space, in motion.

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