We have prepared 4 dances and puppet commentaries in between, as well as a “small” play at the end for you to enjoy the rich expressions of the puppets with the most unique structure. “Kappore” and “A Drunkard” are both male puppet dance but with very different movements. “Black Hair” is a female puppet dance...Continue Reading
The four dancers in ‘We Touch, We Play, We Dance’ weave around the space, inviting babies and children to join them in a warm hearted and playful performance. With music mixed live by a DJ, the dancers respond to the children, guiding them through a series of exchanges and encounters, with high fives, hugs and...Continue Reading
Narrow is about a man and woman who live in houses that are too small for them. They live near each other, borrow each other’s sugar, tea, vacuum cleaner, the odd egg, old family photographs, and a piece of wall. They seem to be made for each other, but living together is not as straightforward...Continue Reading
A man and a woman carry big branches. They light the fire and keep it alive, but the wind and snow come and they have to leave for a long journey. When snowflakes have turned into cherry petals then they can stop and build their home. When the house is done the night comes. They...Continue Reading
In a town where water keeps rising, peculiar houses are built, each time a house is flooded its inhabitant builds a new floor on top of it. There are thus, underwater houses built on top of each other, looking like small piled up cubes. Over time, inhabitants have left the town, and today only an...Continue Reading
This ambitious production tells the story of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables as an object theatre with only 2 actresses. It was created for ricca ricca*festa 2016 and achieved a great success. A renowned Italian director Davide Doro (compagnia RODISIO) portrayed the aspiration, love and lives of nameless people who never give up living and...Continue Reading
In this work without words, the puppeteer soloist Omar Alvarez, combines delicate puppets built from the recycling of everyday objects, with multimedia resources and stop-motion projections created especially for this work, presentng a romantic and fun adventure, a metaphor of the current world. Tic Toc is an antique alarm clock that treasures the wisdom of...Continue Reading
Yeh-Shen, an orphan, saved a little fish by the riverside. Yeh-Shen and the fish who had a magical power became friends who helped each other. However her greedy step mother tried to take the special power away from the fish and ended up killing it. Yeh-Shen was grieved, but the soul of the fish was...Continue Reading
The show depicts a single day in the life of an individual of the 21st century. The contemporary “Everyman”, whose life is “suspended” between Home and Work for a corporation, identifies his or her “pathway through life” as a “pathway to work”. The peregrination in search of the meaning of life comes into view through...Continue Reading
“Nobody believes me, but I am the real Peter Pan”. The Peter Pan who appeared in front of the children of Darlings was rather tattered. And is the Neverland which they dreamed of different to what they have imagined? This is Minoru Betsuyaku’s version of the classic fairy tale, brought to you with songs and...Continue Reading
