OBJECTS OF IMAGINATION - Object Theatre Forum - Performance & Lecture

Name: OBJECTS OF IMAGINATION - Object Theatre Forum - Performance & Lecture
Start: 2025-01-25T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Cornerteateret

Schedule

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cornerteateret | Bergen, HO

We are delighted to present our new, long-awaited project promoting object and puppet theatre for adults:
OBJECTS OF IMAGINATION - Object Theatre Forum.
We want to introduce you to this fascinating and surprising field of theatre, known and always evolving for thousands of years. Today, object theatre combines many disciplines such as acting, dance, music, visual arts, scenography, objects, robotics, puppet animation and more. Though often associated with children's theatre, it has much more to offer. Object theatre use metaphors that allow the audience to open interpretations and a more intimate relationship between the artist and the object.
We invite you to a fascinating journey into the world of object theatre , where humans, imagination and spirituality meet in a subtle dance between reality and fiction.
Learn more about the history and current world of object and puppet theatre at the lecture of Marek Waszkiel Phd, Warsaw Theatre Academy, Poland and see an amazing performance for adults and children (11+) "Body Concert" by Kevin Augustine / Lone Wolf Tribe, USA.
See you soon!
Dominika Minkacz - Sira
More info: www.openwindowtheatre.com
PROGRAM:
Performance: "BODY CONCERT"
KEVIN AUGUSTINE / @LONE WOLF TRIBE, USA
Adults and children (11+)
18:00, Kongesalen
TRAILER:

Oversized body limbs stripped of their skin become a hauntingly romantic moving sculpture of muscles, tendons and bone. Achingly animated in an extremely rigorous choreography, Lone Wolf Tribe´s Kevin Augustine performs solo bringing his puppets to unusual life with his hands, feet and outstretched legs.
Inspired by Japanese Butoh dance and performed to a bittersweet electroacoustic score, this minimalistic spectacle partners exquisitely sculpted foam-rubber puppets in a wordless exploration of life´s beautiful impermanence.
At 50 minutes, a series of dream-like vignettes elevates our shared human journey, highlighting our vulnerability and resiliency as the boundaries of puppetry itself are expanded. Performed without a text and accented with heartbreaking hints of nature,
BODY CONCERT poetically resonates: we are alive with life all around us.
A co-production with Canadian company Les Sages Fous, BODY CONCERT was developed at artist colonies Yaddo, Djerassi & Wildacres; performance residencies at Ella Fiskum Danz (Norway), Les Sages Fous (Quebec) & St. Ann's Puppet Lab (NYC). It was supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation & The Brooklyn Arts Council.
CREDITS: Musical Composition: Mark Bruckner; Lighting Design: Ayumu Poe Saegusa; Masks & Moldmaking: Gloria Sun; Technical wizard & Set design: Ilya Vett; Puppets/direction/performance: Kevin Augustine
Kevin Augustine’s Lone Wolf Tribe (LWT) offers a new multidisciplinary work where oversized body limbs stripped of their skin become a hauntingly romantic moving sculpture of muscles, tendons and bone. Achingly animated in an extremely rigorous choreography, Augustine performs solo—bringing his puppets to unusual life with his hands, feet and outstretched legs.
Puppet company Lone Wolf Tribe crosses into the dance world the first time with this puppet hybrid. Inspired by Japanese Butoh and performed to a haunting original score, BODY CONCERT is a minimalistic spectacle coupling exquisitely sculpted foam-rubber puppets to wordlessly explore life’s beautiful impermanence. Dream-like vignettes (50 min) elevate our shared human journey, highlighting our vulnerability and resiliency as the boundaries of puppetry itself are expanded. Performed without a text and accented with heartbreaking hints of nature, BODY CONCERT poetically resonates: we are alive with life all around us.
https://www.lonewolftribe.com/
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Lecture: THE ART OF OBJECT AND PUPPET THEATRE: Between tradition and modernity.
Marek Waszkiel - Phd Professor,
Warsaw Theatre Academy, Poland
15:00-17:00, Søylesalen
Free Tickets: https://openwindow.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/objects_of_imagination__the_art_of_object_and_puppet_theatre__lecture_by_marek_waszkiel
Two parts:
Talk about the puppetry art : Former traditional forms as stick puppets, rod puppets etc.
Present traditional forms that still exist: hand puppets, shadows and marionettes
New tendencies in the contemporary puppetry art; actor-puppet interplay, animant – the new term of contemporary puppets.
This part will be illustrated by the photos.
Short film – a collection of excerpts from the essential performances by 21st-century puppetry art masters, such as Neville Tranter, Hoichi Okamoto, Frank Soehnle, Duda Paiva, Ilka Schönbein, Kevin Augustin, Yngvild Aspeli, Zero en Conducta and Handspring Puppet Company.

MAREK WASZKIEL, PhD., professor in Puppetry Art History at Warsaw Theatre Academy, vice-president of Warsaw Theatre Academy and chair in Puppet Theatre Department (Bialystok). Head of several Polish Puppet Theatres and artistic consultant (Amber Theatre in Shenzhen, China). President of UNIMA-Poland and member of the executive committee of UNIMA International.
Collaborates with many puppet theatres, puppetry schools and festivals in several countries as lecturer, organizer of different events and puppetry art consultant.
Collaborates with the Polish Academy of Science Institute (PAN, Warsaw)
Editor of the quarterly Pamiętnik Teatralny. Published studies and articles about puppet theatre in Poland and all over the world.
https://www.marekwaszkiel.pl/