Ei! Marionetas / Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora

Ei! Marionetas - Encontro Internacional de Marionetas de Gondomar 2025

APPARITION [ PERFORMANCE ]

• Tchaïka Theatre Company - Natacha Belova < BELGIUM
• all audiences . 40mins . free access


• performance by the trainees of the workshop led by Natacha Belova

APPARITION

Starting with an object, a piece of clothing, or a puppet, we will bring forth “another” or ‘others’ that challenge us, provoke us, and change our breathing. Through manipulation techniques, we will try to assimilate the presence of this “other.”

What action causes something to appear, to begin to be, to manifest itself, to become visible?

We will study different forms of appearance in a scenic space, as well as the gestural possibilities of this new being, in order to discover its particularity and develop its character.

We will work on dissociation techniques to understand the rhythm of the puppet, its intelligence—different from ours—which will allow us to find the puppet as an object that becomes a subject. Who is the other? Through play and movement, we will also explore dependence, the influence of one on the other, the appearance, and disappearance of one and the other.

what the festival has to say

We would like to invite you to attend the public presentation that will conclude a week of intense work with artist Natacha Belova. Natacha develops her work in Belgium as a visual artist and performer, using puppets as a theatrical working method.

During a week, techniques that this artist brings from her projects were explored, and based on these techniques, the various participants were able to explore not only her technical and imaginary universe, but also her dramaturgical dimension. They appropriated these techniques to develop a personal work, which will now be observed by the audience, for reflection on what is being developed at the European and global level, these languages as contemporary artistic processes.

It is undoubtedly an opportunity to connect with Natacha Belova and her universe, enjoying it as observers and transposing not only her thought process and her consideration of society, but also joining the Gondomar International Puppet Festival in celebrating the art of puppetry with the Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora.

Tchaïka Theatre Company - Natacha Belova

Compagnie Tchaïka (formerly Cie Belova-Iacobelli) was born of a meeting between two artists: Tita Iacobelli, a Chilean actress and director, and Natacha Belova, a Belgian-Russian puppeteer.

In 2015, in Santiago, they created an experimental theatrical laboratory for contemporary puppet theatre. At the end of this wonderful two-month experiment, they decided to create a show together. That’s how Tchaïka, Compagnie Tchaïka’s first production, premiered in June 2018 in Santiago de Chile. In September 2021, they embarked on the creation of their second show, LOCO, at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles in Belgium.

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links

• facebook.com/Chaikateatro

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