Bleuté d’Oiselle

Musical storytelling for ages 6 and up. The colour blue, one of the rarest in the animal kingdom. The bird, a source of countless stories and tales in many cultures.

A blue bird can only be an invitation to dreamlike escape and a journey into the imagination.

A storytelling creation for flutes and feathers, after Maurice Maeterlinck Ariel Thiebaut, storyteller and collector of imaginings, to move the ears.

She nourishes herself on stories and words from the many storytelling artists, savouring their shows or training alongside them. Her initial training at the Fine Arts school in Lorraine, the region she comes from, gives her a repertoire of images for storytelling. She experiments with unexpected or poetic collages in the art of telling stories solo, in duo, or as part of a friendly storytelling collective and various groups.

Lena Franchini, a musician full of breath and an inspired visual artist. A conveyor of knowledge and educator, Lena teaches baroque flute and transverse flute in various institutions, where she passes on her passion for music and early repertoire. As a visual artist, she has exhibited in various Parisian venues.

Interweaving the performing arts with the visual arts is one of the strands of work she intends to explore with her association Semibrevis.