World Puppetry Day
March 21st, 2012
International Message from Joan Baixas
Today, it's a celebration day
With a firm gesture we put aside newspapers, switch off newscasts and propose a toast to the art and the brotherhood, today is a festive day, we celebrate the World’s Day of Puppetry.
We cannot forget about the grief, the painful reality of mishaps and penuries troubling the world, but exactly because we do not want to forget, we commit ourselves to celebrate human dignity, the insatiable zeal of men to strengthen life against misfortune and death.
Art is a hymn to this dignity, bringing together in continuous tides past and future generations, cultures and clans, by poetry. Art establishes complicity of views between persons who are marvelling together, creator and spectator, about the exploration of the unknown. Every artistic act is a disturbing grain of sand in the gearing of reality.
The art of puppetry is leading towards these objectives at a fair speed. Every time we animate a character we sign a declaration of independence. As an unruly child of the arts of images and words, of interpretation and narration, the marionette reinforces the commitment to innocence, place of happiness and also calls for the other extreme, cruelty.
Innocence is important, is harmonious and fertile, as testified by Jarry or Kurosawa, Miró or Arseniev and many others.
For cruelty one only has to take measures of the costume and look in the face with sarcasm.
“The animal lives in nature like the water in the water” (M. Eliade). The marionette lives in the imaginary like the water in the water. A territory where reason verges on the flows of the animal and vegetal kingdoms, of earth and water, the imaginary is the energy reserve of people and tribes and the marionette plays there freely like a king, does not analyse, does not intervene, prospers.
“The differentiating feature of the human animal is the animation and the first animation which made men are the gods. Animation makes us to persons.” (P. Sloterdijk). The sharpness of this philosophical reflection pervades the mood in the main act of the puppeteer: to give life to the inanimate and to convene people around this sorcery.
Already some years ago, a handful of puppeteers had the wise idea to create an organization to strengten international exchange. Unima, already turned into a consolidated reality and extended all over the world, is now more than ever necessary to manage the professional efforts regarding the objectives of the art and human dignity.
So, we praise the gods for granting us this profession, we thank our grandfathers for creating Unima and we celebrate the magnificence of the art of the imaginary, we bring a toast to the marionette.
Friends, let’s have a GREAT PARTY!
TFK has gained youth jury award during the XXIVth Puppet Theater International Festival in Bielsko-Biała, Poland.
The show 13.III.2010 will be cancelled because of "OFAFA" festival taking place in "Wrzos"
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"Nasze Miasto / Our City"`s premiere is coming soon, here in Albouquerque (New Mexico).
UNM's Theatre X, Fine Arts Building
January 15th, 8.00pm
January 16th, 8.00pm
January 17th, 2.00pm
Created by two companies, in three different cities, over 10,000 miles, Nasze Miasto/Our City is Tricklock Company?s highly anticipated international collaboration. Partnering with Teatr Figur Krakow, Nasze Miasto/Our City combines elements of Tricklock Company?s imaginative physical theater and Teatr Figur?s extensive background in shadow theater and puppetry. The result is a show that is innovative and modern yet steeped in theatrical traditions.
"Nasze Miasto/Our City" is the examination of the city and the individuals that give it life. Carried by both English and Polish language and dreamlike images that set the scene, the audience is transported through a cityscape of commonalities: the sound of a train, a stoplight and the shadow of a skyscraper. But around every corner, we see the small differences that make a city ? and the people who inhabit it ? inherently unique [...]
read more at Triclocks` website.
"Elephants` Smell after the Rain" presented at XIII International Theater Festival for Children and the Young "Korczak" in Warsaw gained the commendation
of the Festival jury. Congratulations for all winners! We invite our audience for upcoming "Elephant`s smell..." shows - in Jastrzębie Zdrój and Cracow 21.XI.
More about the jury verdict... (in Polish)
Youth jury of IV International Modern Arts Festival for Children and the Young in Poznań awarded a second prize to the TFK for: "unique sense of humour and joy, which are sign of wide horizons of their imagination and infinite capabilities of creation."
Prize was the picture "Bamberka" by Maria Mirońska.
The professional jury has awarded to TFK a diploma of honour.
Take a look at our pantomima workshops offer! We start 4th December!
This is the only body movement & pantomima workshop available here in Cracow. It`s fun and adventure with TFK!
The winter edition is led by Tadeusz Dylawerski, professional mime - many years` actor of Tomaszewski Pantomime Theater, puppeter and pedagogue.
Our offer is aimed at everyone interested in body movement, gaining body awarness, pantomime. We do not expect any previous mime experience from partecipants. We invite actors, dancers, passionates - both young people who are yet about to discover their talent and older ones who has an artistic background of any kind.
TFK has presented one of the three most interesting plays of the festival; it seems to be a holiday fair marvel. The irritating our innate curiosity stimulates it greatly.
"A paper, a lamp and a scissors", Magdalena Foks
