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VOICE 4 VISION PUPPET FESTIVAL In keeping with the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival mission, the following artists and works will be presented as part of the 2009 Festival. Our goal continues to be to support the community of artists living and working in NYC who are making work for Puppet Theater. Theater For The New City provides a venue for these artists through its Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival. We endeavor to bring mature works of puppet theatre, created by emerging artists, to the attention of the community. We seek to encourage and nurture the growth of these artists by providing a much needed venue for the presentation of full length works, by artists who have not yet established themselves, but who are committed to the art of puppet theatre and who are creating works of merit. SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES:
The participants in this festival are all award-winning artists who create original works of their own and contribute their performing and conceptual talents to significant large-scale works by other contemporary puppet theater artists and groups. The festival will include new works and works of merit that have been seen briefly in New York in the past few years and deserve to be shared with a wider New York audience. The festival is supported by the Jim Henson Foundation. ARTISTS & SHOWS |
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HOBO NO-NO – Billy Burns Hobo No-no takes place during the Great Depression and follows a road-scarred tramp and his uneasy protégé on their picaresque adventures that crisscross the country. It is a work of traditionally staged marionette theater employing a number of elaborate set changes and special effects, rhyming dialogue and original music.
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SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES Thursday, December 3rd, 8:00pm
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THE MUD ANGELS - Luis Tentindo The point of departure for The Mud Angels (an emergence of forms) is the catastrophic flood, which occurred in Florence, Italy in 1966. With this historical event as the setting, a dynamic puppet-movement play unfolds which tells the story of a book restorer and the memories which are uncovered as he goes deeper into his work. The piece explores memory and loss in a very tangible way – through the destruction and miraculous restoration of the written treasures of a society. The story uses the central figure of the restorer as one of a dying breed. The project uses puppets (bunraku-style and 2 dimensional forms), sculptural set inventions, and an original sound score with live performance by Valerie Opielski. Several of the set pieces are multi-functional sculptures that use pulleys, ropes, and levers. The sound |
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score utilizes original music, sound environments, and audio interviews woven into a seamless continuum.
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SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES Thursday,
December 10th, 8:00pm
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NEXT TO THE LAST POEM and LA MOME BIJOUX - Patti Bradshaw Next to the Last Poem is a day in the life of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa who lived from 1888 to 1935. Scholars say he invented numerous“heteronyms” (his word) who interacted with him and each other throughout Pessoa’s otherwise reclusive and lonely life. On a rainy night in March 1914 Pessoa wrote upwards of 36 poems in four distinct voices. This puppet theater show represents an imaginary day before that prolific night.
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Brassai’s famous photographic subject from the 1930s in Paris, La Mome Bijou, comes to life in the form of a puppet and object theater play. La Mome Bijoux has a predilection for things that sparkle. She holds certain illusions about her notoriety and importance. Times are lean. It’s just another night of fortune telling and reminiscing at her usual table. However, these moments are leading up to a future of recognition and immortality she could never have predicted.
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SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES Thursday,
December 10th, 9:30pm
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FOLKTALES OF ASIA & AFRICA
December 5, 6, 12 & 13 @ 11:30 am Cabaret Theater A Children’s Show during the Festival, for matinee performances on Saturday and Sunday, Cino Theatre, Theatre For The New City.
While she is making bread, the hostess discovers that she has guests. As they all wait for the dough to rise she tells them three stories using kitchen utensils to play the characters, in the style of Found Object puppetry.
Schedule of Performances Saturday, December 5th, 11:30am
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PUPPETS ON FILM
December 6 @ 8:00 A provocative, challenging, and savvy collection of puppet shorts created by the next generation of small-scale artists, featuring selections from Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams Vol. IV. See www.voice4vision.org for updates. The festival is the premiere presenter of Volume IV of this collection, which has been assembled by IBEX, Inc. IBEX Inc. is an entertainment company dedicated to promoting the fine art of puppetry in all of its various mediums, nuturing work for a myriad of venues including stage, film, and gallery. Company projects include: The Orlando Puppet Festival, environmental theatre spectacles, puppet film series, and gallery exhibits. Its film series, "Handmade Puppet Dreams," is a collection of puppet film shorts by independent artists exploring their handmade craft specifically for the camera. The series has been screened nationally and internationally and has won several awards. HMPD Film Series consists of Volumes I, II, III, "For Kids" and "Highlights". For more information, please visit www.ibexpuppetry.com and www.handmadepuppetdreams.com Schedule of Performances Sunday, December 6th, 8:00pm
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Puppet Art Attacks The Puppet Art Attacks Slam is a fast paced evening of short works - from 3 to 8 minutes long and featuring some of the most innovative emerging artist in the field of puppetry. This is the closing event of the Festival and is always brimming with the city’s most energetic and challenging artists who are doing it for love of the art. Some of the artists who have indicated they will present are: Schedule of Performances Sunday, December 13th, 8:00pm
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