BLIND

DudaPaiva Company

(Amersfoort/The Netherlands)
Figure theatre, 60 min, In easily understandable English

Crinoline skirts, floating in a network of cords. A creature as if from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch: lumpy, deformed and disfigured. Life-size puppets of grotesque yet magical realism conjure up a world of singing and dancing demons in the realm between good and evil, beauty and pain. BLIND is the story of a deep crisis, a disease and its surreal healing. Powerful and intimate in equal measure, this experience is transformed into a metaphor about rejection and being forsaken. In a fusion of physical theatre, figure acting, audience interaction and Afro-Brazilian Yoruba chants, this piece is uniquely funny and moving.

Founded in 2005 by the Brazilian dancer and puppeteer Duda Paiva in Amsterdam, the company has achieved worldwide renown within a very short period of time for its unique mixture of puppetry and modern dance. The actors use foam puppets and objects as flexible extensions of their bodies, thus dissolving the boundary between puppeteer and dancer. The DudaPaiva Company is currently regarded as one of the most innovative theatres in the Netherlands and performed at UNIDRAM in 2010.

Concept: Duda Paiva, Nancy Black · Director: Nancy Black · Choreography, Puppet coach: Duda Paiva · Cast: Duda Paiva · Music, Sound design: Wilco Alkema · Light design: Mark Verhoef · Puppets: Evandro Serodio, Duda Paiva · Yoruba teacher, Theatre anthropologist: Patrick Oliveira · Dramaturgical advice: Nienke Rooijakkers · Costumes decor: Machtelt Halewijn · Costumes: Atty Kingma · Decor realisation: Daniel Patijn · Production: Marijana Mikolcic · Photos: Patrick Argirakis


Kindly supported by fabrik Potsdam
Sponsored by Botschaft des Königreichs der Niederlande
Supported by Performing Arts Fund Netherlands
A coproduction with Black Hole Theatre Australia, Nordland Visual Theatre Norway, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes France, Korzo Netherlands
With thanks to Hans C. Boer, Domokos Kovacs

2016


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Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633