Back to the dark rooms

Finally it's again cold and dark outside and we can go hide in warm theatres and although it's dark there too, it's magical and special and we see beautiful things, or even scary things and things flying or falling or things in suitcases or things on strings...

I did it recently and went to see a show for the small ones called "Meer dan Beer" - meaning More than a bear. And here I choose three of my favourite moments of this visual/musical experience.

1. It all starts with this soft Teddy Bear waking up in his suitcase...

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2. The wallpapers!

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3. The most multifunctional/extremely professional puppet theatre stage!

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All of this is made by and performed by Maarten Van Aerschot from Tal en Thee figurentheater, Belgium.

Akhe

My ticket arrived!! This Saturday I make a little trip to Essen, Germany to the FIDENA festival to see the Russian engineering theatre AKHE with their show Gobo.Digital Glossary. Some years ago I had the chance to attend a workshop of object theatre with one of the members of AKHE. It was a great work. Now really curious to see the show! 

Anyway the program of the Fidena puppetry festival has much more to offer. Check out their program HERE. Enjoy the puppetry!

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New show

Our kitchen turned this weekend into an atelier! Tereza (my Kukulu fellow) arrived with a car loaded with materials, machines, stages, bicycles, puppets, parts of puppets, parts of bicycles… Now we just have to bring it all together and make it work. So exciting! 

I will keep you updated, and tell you all about it very soon.

Tradaaadaa! Now back to work! ;)

(And yes, we enjoyed some ate amounts of belgian chocolate. I'll miss you Terezka!)

meotar portable

With permission of my dearest kukulu - colleague, Tereza, I am presenting you some of the very first experiments with our new toy - 'Meotar Portable'. A meotar is one of the basic tools of a puppeteer :) And now we have one too!! Looking forward to play with the light and shadows... And even more looking forward to the new show of which our meotar will be part of! I'll keep you updated! 

three creatures I met last week in Vienna and two interesting guys I met yesterday in Ghent

Meeting a fluffy goat (third from the left, first pic) or, mechanical puppets (the one with a hat was opening and closing his mouth) can be sometimes very refreshing. Especially, when there is not much of cultural events going on. Or I just don't have the time/energy/money to join them.  Or I have to work on my own 'cultural events' and I need inspiration. May we have a very inspiring new week!! 

typewriter

   This is my new - old typewriter! :) It's not from a fleamarket. It's from my dad's old office. I typed the headline above with it. It feels really real to hit the keys. Enjoying the little "ting" at the end of the page too. I'm going to type and type and type and bring some interesting puppetry to you very soon!!