Johanny Bert / Théâtre de Romette

There’s a man taking a bath. No, he’s a dancer who is sculpting clouds. No, it’s a cloud cradling a dancer in its arms. No, it’s a man creating landscapes in order to disappear into them. No, it’s something else entirely.
Imagined for very young audiences and the adults accompanying them, Le Petit Bain is a creation based on material which is at once concrete, recognizable for the child, but which can also become an abstraction, a playing field for the imagination: bubble bath. Working with this fascinating material is a dancer who sculpts the foam to create fragile masses, landscapes and a number of ephemeral characters.


Johanny Bert is an actor, a puppeteer and a director. Through his artistic journey he has developed a unique theatrical language, a confrontation between an actor, an object and the marionette form. In 2000, he founded the Compagnie Théâtre de Romette, an experimental space for creation.
Between 2012 and 2015, Bert directed the Centre Dramatique National de Montluçon – Le Fracas, after which he decided to return to stage direction.