I saw a singing tent

A very  intersting object theatre workshop was happening in Brussel in november. Under the leading work of Agnes Limbos and Christian Carrignon, 12 people were bringing weird things to life. Funny and fresh. Strong and tragic. Singing tents, glitters and crashing cars... 

Pierrick De Luca, Jeni Barnard - Une femme amoureuse

Pierrick De Luca - Une femme amoureuse

Audrey Dero - Schneewittchen

Clement Montagnier, Jeni Barnard - Le cordon ombilical

Puppets of the week

Today I captured few nice "balloon - human" puppets during a Wednesday afternoon workshop with these children at zZmogh - a kunstfabriek here in Ghent. Next week we are going to show to the parents what we were doing during our puppetry sessions. Too early. I wish we could work all school year long. But even only after 5 sessions we have some funny material as you can see. I hope our balloon people are going to survive...

Sometimes you just need to dance...

... or watch dancers dance. For example on an open rehearsal of a dance class of Wisper or even better in June when their performance will be ready. You can see the result in Antwerp and in Ghent and I will let you know when!

JUST A PAPER

I had the chance again to work with one of my favourite materials - the newspaper. 

Around ninety young people were supposed to master the work with muppets, objects and paper in five different workshops during four days. My job was to introduce them to the work with paper. Somehow it felt strange at the beginning. The paper doesn't have eyes, and mouth and it isn't colourful enough. It's just a paper...  But after some experimenting it became easier and we enjoyed preparing our paper show. Nice and smooth work with a good result. 

(And I must visit the container of the local newspaper again, I am out of material!)

little people making little puppets

We were making fingerpuppets yesterday. And the results were lovely. 

more about this and other workshops at www.zzmogh.be

Aliens and Monsters

I traveled with the kids from Alveringem to another planet. On our little adventure of a three days workshop we met all kinds of inspiring beings. Some aliens were part of our small final puppet show. Some of them just told us, where they live or what they like to eat, but were too shy to join. Still they were present on a picture in the gallery. The outdoor monsters got washed away by rain too soon... But here are some of them for you to check out. (Ok, a lot of them, but it was hard for me to make a choice.) 

Have a good intergalactic weekend! 

*(workshop provided by zZmogh - artistic projects for children and youth in the Flanders)

the magic of newspapers

One of many great materials to use in the puppetry world are newspapers. You can munch them, squeeze them, make big or small creatures out of them and they produce nice sounds... Plus, it's cheap and in the container of the local publisher (should I tell my source?) you can find a good bunch of them.

Together with these twelve girls we discovered the qualities of the material. Newspaper animals and monsters were all around. And afterwards the girls made these fantastic characters, Sammy, Lady Gaga, Smoking Guy and Gardener Lady :) Manipulating with three, they prepared short stories inspired by ... newspaper articles, of course.

Here's a little example of our work. I enjoyed it very much!! Thank you, girls, good job!

after the show...

When the show is over, the kids in kindergartens draw me some pictures. Not always. But if they do, I'm very happy. I already have a huge collection! Here are some drawings from the two previous days. Sometimes they also draw me. It's really sweet to see, how they see me:) 

Popoty at the house of Mr. Proffesor

The cat Popoty and his fish

the gold fish Gaga 

GAGA

Not sure..

Lena and the fish puppet