ASSOCIATIVE MIRAGES OF THE THEATRICAL DIRECTOR-PUPPETEER PHILIPPE GENTY

This article examines the theater of the French director, choreographer and puppeteer Philippe Genty, whose works on plasticity and pantomime are actively used in the process of teaching acting in theater universities, in particular, in the Lugansk State Academy of Culture and Arts named after Mikhail Matusovsky. F. Genty is rightfully considered the most mysterious director who created a truly magical theater. F. Genty is considered one of the brightest representatives of the theater direction "new circus" - a specific genre that combines drama, pantomime, modern dance, visual arts and circus. In this theater, everything is subject to the laws of dreams. In the world of the great dreamer F. Genty - a special space inhabited by people, dolls, living flowers and unknown creatures - they speak the language of circus and pantomime, theater of drama and music, puppets and shadows. In the stage universe of F. Genty, actors, puppets and objects coexist on an equal footing, on the one hand, and plastic dance, pantomime and a mind-boggling circus show with mind-boggling tricks and magic tricks on the other. F. Genty’s greatest merit is also that he brought puppet theatre (no matter how synthetic its version was) to a new level – to the “major league”.