The last year and the present brought the need to deepen, reflect on the projects and activities that Red Cloud Teatro de Puppets develops. With the constant changes in the schedule due to the pandemic and confinements, Red, Teatro and Puppets keep their movement, but faster and also richer in the scope of artistic proposals.
We are developing several projects that encompass programming, creation, circulation and community.
We have a lot of news!
Programing:
This is a very strong point! The organization of an event that will be an explosion of possibilities in the world of puppet theater in a multiformat context. “Motus Imago – Show of Shapes, Puppets and Things in Motion” #warmup online edition 2021# and will take place in November between the 6th and the 13th.
The mottos for the programming and selection of works are to dilute the borders of the languages of the theater with puppets, video, the “new” and the “old” media. Creations that allow you to broaden the horizons between the theatrical object, the puppet, animated forms giving rise to a multiformat manipulation.
In July, starting on the 3rd, we’ll be back on stage with the show “This happened suddenly. Distortion” at the Red Cloud Marionetas Space – Aveiro. It is very important for us to have the possibility of promptly opening the “doors of the house” to the public, in a very organized and contained way, following all the indications of the DGS (General Directorate of Health).
Creation:
On June 12th, version 1.0 of the street performance “Between People” debuted in Aveiro. This initiative is based on the desire to experiment with various approaches based on a starting point, such as a game of perceptions. It is a work that is never considered finished because its purpose is to be in constant transformation by drifting, by listening and by the space it inhabits.
Allows adaptability and experience for its open, free and permanent purpose. There is also, in the team, the desire to leave the stages and conventional spaces for the presentation of shows, to go directly to the undifferentiated public and to provoke a path for experimentation around the public space, providing the emergence of different material-contents .
“The specific materiality of the actor’s mobile and dynamic body interacts directly with the spectator’s body and `infects it`” Erika Fischer.
We are going to create at least two more versions of “Between People” in different formats: a streaming piece to be presented in real time and a photographic piece based on street experiences.
Circulation:
In June we finally started touring shows!
The show “This happened suddenly. Distortion.” been to Why? – Theater for Children and Youth on June 5, in Famalicão, a festival promoted by Fértil Associação Cultural.
The show “Teatro Dom Roberto” was on June 8 at Portugal dos Pequenitos, to celebrate its 80th birthday. This kind of popular and traditional Portuguese puppet theater fit very well in this celebration.
The super “Planeta Plip workshop” was held at the Aveiro Library, as part of the Book Fair schedule. Based on the creative process for the “Plip” show, the participants conceived and created their own mobile and private planet, in a simple way, going through the stages inherent to artistic creation: an open universe always in transformation. Each participant received and animated their puppet kit designed and built in 3D from a character in the show.
In July…
The performance “Between People” will move to Colectivo Osso, within the scope of School of Labyrinths, in Caldas da Rainha, on the 23rd and 24th. For this action we are preparing and playing (as already mentioned) with the perceptions, working around colors and time, we created the version “Between spectrum in slices…”
Also in July, “Teatro Dom Roberto” will be present at the Figueira da Foz Book Fair, on the 25th.
Communities:
Since April of this year, Red Cloud Teatro de Marionetas has been collaborating in “Fábrica”. It is a project promoted by the Municipality of Aveiro/Teatro Aveirense, under the direction of Jorge Louraço, author of the text of the show”This happed suddenly. Distortion”. This work was scheduled to premiere in June, but with the confinement and the works at Teatro Aveirense, it moved to September, the 23rd! We are collaborating on stage and in the construction of props.
Simultaneously, in the Prison Establishment of Aveiro, Red Cloud T. Marionetas develops the theme theater/puppets, within the scope of the project “Libertar-te” implemented by the Associação Tuna de Santa Joana. This initiative involves the participation of some inmates and some other entities, such as the Fábrica da Ciência Viva de Aveiro and the Associação a Barrica de Aveiro.
But there’s more… Actions in the sphere of the educational service of Motus Imago – Showcase of Shapes, Puppets and Things in Motion that will begin before November.
We will have news soon!
The Open Call for proposals for Motus Imago is already underway!
All information is available here on the website and through
https://filmfreeway.com/MotusImago
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Here we continue the movement!
Sara Henriques
(Artistic Codirector)
