Med a Prach, Slovakia
libretto Andrej Kalinka, Ivan Martinka, Michal Mikuláš, Juraj Poliak starring Ivan Martinka, Miriam Kalinková, Michal Mikuláš, Adam Marec, Juraj Poliak, Andrej Kalinka music Andrej Kalinka puppets and masks Ivan Martinka stage design Juraj Poliak costumes Ivan Martinka, Markéta Plachá lights Michal Juhás director Andrej Kalinka, Ivan Martinka
A stage performance by independent Slovak artists, creating under a collective name "Med A Prach". The transcendental story telling of love and faith using two-meter-tall puppets and three glass screens, which serve as the vessel for emotions. The spectacle has been staged on "Dotyky a spojenia" Festival among others.
Friday 10.X, at 20:00Mogilev Region's Puppet Theatre, Belarus
The King's life is in danger – he might be killed by his future son-in-law, The Exemplary Knight. The astrologist tells him about the planned attack and tells the King that he will be safe until the name of assassin will be undisclosed. But Odalinda, the daughter of the king suddenly finds out the truth. A political grotesque by Belarusian artists is an imagination about what would have happened if the Communist International was established in the Middle Ages.
Language of the spectacle: Belarusian
Saturday 11.X, at 20:00Nicola Unger, The Netherlands
idea, video and animation Nicola Unger consulting Judith Schoneveld, Cecilia Vallejos, Paul Perry production Zeebelt Foundation
A one-man show by the artist, whose shows always balance between visual arts and performance. This time the Dutch artist focuses on the role of the individual within the society and examines the correlation between individuality and community.
Language of the spectacle: English
Sunday 12.X, at 18:00 and 20:00Meitel Raz, Israel
direction, design and enactment Meitel Raz
A 70-minute performance consisting of two short stories: "Zebra" and "A Journey to the Moon". The first one is the story of love and survival in incredible circumstances of life. The artist uses only a table, ten fingers and a zebra toy during the show. In the second part of the spectacle, Meitel Raz take the audience onto a journey with a Spanish traveler, Gonzales, who adores exploring new countries, however, unfortunately he gets lost on the open sea.
Language of the spectacle: English
Monday 13.X, at 17:30 i 20:00David Zuazola and Scarlattine Teatro, Chile-Italy
production ScarlattineTeatro – David Zuazola Puppet Company in collaboration with Marek Żurawski performers Anna Fascendini, David Zuazola music Marek Żurawski stage design and puppets David Zuazola, Anna Fascendini, Michele Losi lights Michele Losi costumes Stracci Sartoria Creativa
A comedy showing the pains of the love-tormented Nul, who upon discovering the doer of his misery – the Cupid – decides to capture and destroy him. However, the hopes for ending his foul lot, turn out to be delusional.
Tuesday 14.X, at 17:30 i 20:00Puppets and People Theatre, Poland
screenplay and direction Krzysztof Zemło painter Ewa Zemło actress Eliza Mieleszkiewicz music Jan Mlejnek
A painter, a musician and an actor. Together they create a story the main theme of which is the passing… not only of time. The form oscillates between a vivid performance, a musical concerto and a theatre spectacle. The spectacle consists of a series of moving pictures, which are a play of a variety of lighting techniques. Each of them relates to the theme of the journey in a different way.
Wednesday 15.X, at 20:00The Forms of Light Studio, Poland
screenplay, direction, stage design, figures and animation Tadeusz Wierzbicki music Tadeusz Wielecki collaboration regarding computer graphics Andrzej Grabowski collaboration Maria Gloria Gimeno Domenech
The opening night of the spectacle by Tadeusz Wierzbicki entitled "Tra". This unique shadow theatre created by composing together the effects of illuminated, cut-out silhouettes imprinted on a cellophane foil, a double membrane. As equally important feature of the spectacle are the musical compositions of Tadeusz Wielecki.
Thursday 16.X, at 18:00Gaspare Nasuto, Italy
Gaspare Nasuto is a Neapolitan master of the art of puppet craftsmanship and sculpturing. In his spectacle, the voice of the main character, Pulcinella, is created via a special musical instrument called Pivetta hidden in the artist's mouth.
The artist was granted the Audience Award during Puppet is a Human too Festival in 2013
Thursday 16.X, at 20:00The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland
"Options of life according to professor Leszek Kołakowski" is a performance consisting of five quasi–lectures by the recently deceased philosopher. They are brief, apt deductions crowned with unexpected commentary, accompanied by musical pieces performed on the piano.
Not taking part in the contest
Saturday 11.X, at 17:00The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland
In the "Second Room" the artists combine a widely understood art of photography with the language of theatre. The spectacle takes place on two levels, where the main role is played by black-and-white pictures depicting usual, mundane everyday life in a poetic, romantic interpretation.
Not taking part in the contest
Friday 17.X, at 18:00The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland
A vivid, wordless suite inspired by the works of Roland Topor and Johann Sebastian Bach.
The spectacle was awarded with Złoty OFFeusz on "Malta" International Festival in Poznań, grand prizes during Łódzkie Spotkania Teatralne and on International Puppet Theatre for Adults Festival PIERROT.
Not taking part in the contest
Friday 17.X, at 20:00The screening of movies from the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" – Poznań, 2014
The screening of movies from the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" – Poznań, 2014
Screening of the movies awarded during the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" in Poznań, 2014
Animowany film pełnometrażowy
The screening of movies by Mischa Giancovich, directed to suit the music composed by the children of Andrzej Panufnik
Roxanna Panufnik, followed into her father's footsteps – Andrzej Panufnik amd is one of the most recognized modern composers of the young generation. Music and animation is taken care of by her brother – Jem Panufnik.
Graduate projects created in the Visual Communication Department in the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
Stop motion films chosen from the group of candidates fighting for the Grand Prix of the 4th International Film Festival StopTrik
The most recognizable technique of stop motion is a puppet film, due to the fact that this genre of animation, functions somewhat suspended between cinematography and theatre. The most vivid features being its expressiveness and the tendency to present a fairytale-like imaging.
Director of the Bibiana, International House of Art for Children in Bratislava. Author of screenplays, dramas and a director in one person. Curator of over two hundred interactive exhibitions. Artistic manager of "Gramy dla Was" ("We play for you") Festival, which has been taking place in the International House for over ten years.
Joanna Bielińska
"One of the trends of my artistic doings is sketching. During one concerto, a theatre spectacle or a meeting, I do a series of pencil, chalk or pen drawn sketches. They are the essence of the present moment"s feelings. Among many works, only a few are the "right ones". The chosen ones come into being while fully concentrated, usually being the last, the outcome of a series of intermediate pictures which lead to the final result. The ones convey an emotional load, of my concentration, as well as, of the artists being depicted. This is the reason why I do "live sketches"; to absorb into myself and pour onto my drawings the authenticity of existence. The experiences of the person at hand and the aura created by the spectacle or concert."
- Joanna Bielińska
Eva Čárska and Miroslav Duša
An exhibition of the Slovakian puppeteering art and its history. The author and the dramatic notion of the exhibition itself, dwells within the frames of a modern fairytale. It revolves partially between an idealized image of future, the present state of reality and the inspirations brought by the future.
That is why, the dialog between the author and the people visiting the exhibition talks about the roots of, the personality and meaning or the perspectives which are brought by such a specific cultural phenomenon as the puppet theatre.
About 150 year old marionettes from private collection of Anton Anderle and rustic ceremonial bar puppets originating in the pagan times, as well as, the collections of the Slovak National Museum.
Przemek Wiśniewski
The newest works of Przemek Wiśniewski envisage a theatre which is and at the same time does not exist. It creates a dynamic, constantly developing form, giving the impression of artistic events captured while happening. Due to the virtual means used and the form of relating, there occurs a dual possibility of experiencing theatre. On the none hand, you can just connect the virtual impressions and communing with the theatre, steaming form the direct experiences of visiting theatre. On the other hand, a change of relation to what seems already familiar might be more plain. This, however, does not have to have a direct impact on one's impressions and decisions.
Pupeteer. For a half of a century a spokesman and a spiritus movens of puppetry for adults. In early 70s a professor of SATL (Wroclaw), a cooperator in making performances of Wroclaw Puppet Theatre, also an actress of Warsaw Theatres LALKA and Fraszka, a cooperator with TV. Translations: Jacinto Benavente, Alfred Jarry, Lemercier de Neuville. Adaptations: anonim – Rzecz o Alkasynie i Nikolecie, Stanislaw Wyspiański The wedding, Leszek Kołakowski The key to Heaven). A member of the Center of International Puppet Artists Union UNIMA.
Theatrologist, theatrical critic, krytyk teatralny, Ph.D. in knowledge of the culture.
Authoress of articles about puppet and arts theatre. She contributes with theatrical festivals in Russia, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. She lives in Petersburg.
Simon has for the past thirty years enjoyed a busy, varied and successful career in the arts.
He appeared as a soloist with many choirs, worked as a singing teacher and also trained as an actor, appearing in many leading roles in many spectacles, as well as TV shows. Simon also directed productions with his own theatre companies, as well as working as a musical director.
Director, president of Omsk State puppet, actor and mask theatre "Arlekin" and the International festival of puppet theatres, board member of the Russian department of UNIMA.
Member and leader of Regionalt Netværk, president of Danish UNIMA, Jury member in professional puppetry festivals.
Head of the puppet and animation theatre department and puppetry department of the Danish Development Centre For Performing Arts Scenekunstens Udviklingscenter Odsherred Theaterschool subsidized by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Leader and founder of Thy Teater. Lecturer in First Hand Theatre.
Benefactors:
Capital City of Warsaw Municipal Office
The Impossible Theatre Union
President of the Impossible Theatre Union
1. For "Expression of a Life by the Puppet" (for the best actor/actress)
2. For "Expression of a Theater by the Puppet" (for creativity)
3. Grand Prix of "Expression of a Theater by the Puppet" (for the best spectacle of the festival)
Additional awards:
The Jury consisting of Students of the Theatre Academy in Białystok "A Hundred for the Point" Award
The Audience Prize "Blind Invitation" for a Band for the Next Festival Edition
Impossible Theatre Union's President "Wonderful moment of animation" prize in the form of a sculpture,
made of bronze - Noemi by Ewald Kornek (replica from the "Options of life according to professor Leszek Kołakowski")
An Honorary Diploma of the Polish Puppeteer Centre POLUNIMA