Project Puppet Nomad Academy
In November 2009 Mini teater begun to work on the one of the biggest puppet projects Puppet Nomad Academy.
Inspired by the “nomads of beauty” from European avant-garde, they have envisioned this project as unique traveling puppet workshops from Armenia to Byelorussia, Czech, Croatia, Slovenia to Belgium. The goal is to connect the great masters of puppet art Aleksei Leliavski, Marek Bečka, Armen Safarian that come from rich traditions of East-European puppetry with the masters from Slovenia, Croatia and Belgium and young puppeteers and actors mostly from Slovenia and participating countries.
The project is inspired by antic and old European tradition that master-lecturers share practical knowledge, secrets and skills with students and young artists.
Project leader: Mini Teater, Ljubljana (SI)
Coorganizers: Figurentheater Vlinders and Co vzw (BE), Bouchty a Loutky (CZ),UO Novo Kazaliste (HR),Armenian Center of International Union of Pupeteers (Armenia),Belarussian State Puppet Theater (Belarus)
Project has been supported by Programme Culture, Strand 1.3, Call 2009.
Project activities
As a part of the project Puppet Nomad Academy several workshops were prepared since November 2009 in Minsk, Byelorussia on the subject of text, dramaturgy, art and puppet design, visual dramaturgy, technology and music. In Ljubljana since November 2009 there have been workshops of visual arts and usage of light, lead by Ivica Buljan and Slaven Tolj as a part of the project The night at the edge of the forests in cooperation with Robert Waltl. Together the three artists have researched the art of speech, dance and movement. In January 2010 the project Puppet Nomad Academy has continued with the workshops about puppet animation and making of puppets and costumes. Beside the workshops there have been several actor rehearsals in Ljubljana with the emphasis on acting, singing, working on the text, partitioning, characters and psychology. In January 2010 there was en emphasis in workshops on research of space and light under the guidance of son:DA, a visual artist from Maribor.
In February and in later on in 2010 further actor rehearsals will be made.
The result of workshops, actor rehearsals, preparations and meetings is the production of three performances:
Ali Baba and 40 thieves (opening night5. 2. 2010), director: Irina Yurjeva
Cinderella (25. 2. 2010), director: Aleksei Leliavski from Armenia
Snow White (August 2010), director: Marek Bečka from Czech
Premiere of a puppet performance Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
On Friday, 5th of February 2010, at 19.00 in the new hall of Bernard-Marie Koltès in Mini teater on Križevniška Street 1 in Ljubljana there will be a premiere of a puppet performance Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, directed by Irina Yurjeva.
The performance is the result of activities on the project Puppet Nomad Academy that has begun in November 2009. Art work for the performance was made my Tatsiana Neresian, translation by Ivana Jurković, music by Leonid Pevlenok.
Acting: Vesna Vončina, Anže Zevnik, Romeo Grebenšek and Aljaž Tepina.
Ongoing activity: 12th Mini Summer 2010
Ljubljana castle, 20th June - 29th August 2010
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