Born 1981, Emilien Truche met the puppetry very young. When he was a kid, he played in puppetrypieces in his little hometown. During his first studies, Emilien was engaged in many projects and the student theater association« TU de Dijon ». 2004 he completed his studies as teacher for the first degree and began to teach in differents primary schools in France. In 2010 he moved in Germany, worked as french teacher and he took parallel different curses at the Figurentheaterkolleg in Bochum.
Emilien lives and works in Stuttgart. He has studied puppetry at the HMDK (university for music and performing art) in Stuttgart – Germany. He worked there with differents artists from performing and visual domain (Prof. Stephanie Rinke, Prof. Florian Feisel, Prof. Julika Mayer, Janusz Debinski, Michael Cros, Sylvia Wanke, Michael Mordo, Annette Scheibler, Pierre Meunier, Marguerite Bordat , Ariel Doron, Joachim Fleischer) and he participed in differents group-productions who played on differents festivals in Europe like « Imaginale » in Stuttgart, « FIDENA » in Bochum,« Les Giboulées » in Strasbourg, or « internationales figuren.theater.festival» in Erlangen. In the season 2017 / 2018, Emilien plays as guest-puppeteer in the show “Macbeth ” at the municipal theater in Aalen (Germany). In 2017, he has become the Deutschland Stipendium ( « Germany Scholarship »).
Since 2018, he has developed various collaborations with musicians from different genres: from classical music for the ‘Pompom’ project with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra to contemporary music with the Stuttgart soprano Angelika Luz (scenic concert ‘Mit Diesen Händen’) or with the French company BaOmen (performance-installation concert ‘Ilmarinen’ for the very youngest).
In 2019, he worked with Antje Töpfer and Ines Müller-Braunschweig on the children’s play ‘Zwei im Fluss’ at FITZ! In 2020, he took part in the production ‘Crash & Care’ by O-Team (Stuttgart) under the direction of Florian Feisel as a character builder and assistant director. In the same year, he was also a scholarship holder of the FIDENA residency programme ‘Eigentlich anders’ with the research project ‘Das Tier in mir’.
In 2021, the project ‘Dopqelgänger’ in cooperation with the singer Johannes Fritsche and the pianist Manon Parmentier won the second prize and best interdisciplinary project at the Goodmesh Concours 2021 in Amsterdam. In the summer of the same year, he developed the scenic concert ‘Carnival of the Animals’ with organist Michael Sattelberger under the external view of choreographer Katja Büchtemann. This piece is supported by the Neustart Kultur – Take Action – programme of the Fonds Darstellende Künste
In his work, Emilien mixes dance, performance and puppeteer. Emilien explores the relations between the puppet and the puppeteer, he tries to show the unspeakable and plays wit the border of animation.