manipulate Visual Theatre Festival #6

VISUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL #6 2 – 16 FEBRUARY 2013

www.manipulatefestival.org

TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHSUMMERHALL, EDINBURGHLOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFELEMON TREE, ABERDEENTHE ARCHES, GLASGOWNORWICH PUPPET THEATRE

FESTIVAL CABARET

AUTOMATON MURRAY WASON, 50’

THESE AGE OLD PRESENT MOMENTS SARAH HOPFINGER, 50’

5 MINUTES TO MOVE ME VARIOUS, 30’ //BUZZCUT// SCOTLAND

//BUZZCUT// welcomes you to manipulate in emphatic fashion with a performance fiesta!

Join us to investigate the potential future of humans alongside robots and meditate on the politics of growing older. In our lively and welcoming bar, experience the intimacy of one-on-one table top performances by solo artists born in 5 different decades.

//BUZZCUT// is an artist-led organization devoted to the essential development of experimental performance and the ways in which we experience it.

www.glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com

POR SAL Y SAMBA CARLES CASALLACHS NETHERLANDS, 20’

Puppet Animation Scotland’s contribution to //BUZZCUT// @ manipulate.

A duet of cruelty which starts With a desire for beauty And dance as ritual begins To unlock darkness. Two equal partners can reach Pleasure and pain, and the edge Of integrity, very quickly.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please accept Our gracious invitation to share Sal Y Samba with us.

www.carlescasallachs.wordpress.com

SIMON HART Artistic DirectorREBECCA DAVIS Festivals & Projects Manager SUSIE WILSON Film Curator

MANIPULATE VISUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2013

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VISUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL 2013

TICKET AND BOX OFFICE INFORMATION

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Welcome to our annual festival of innovative international theatre and film. With

exceptional performances of the highest quality from England, Estonia, Finland,

Israel, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland and the USA – and a film programme

from all global points in between - we present a festival designed to entertain,

intrigue and inspire.

As well as continuing our successful collaboration with the Norwich Puppet

Theatre, one of the UK’s most important and influential centres of puppetry

during the past 40 years, we are very pleased to welcome the Lemon Tree,

Aberdeen, the Lochgelly Centre, Fife and the Arches, Glasgow, as manipulate

venues for the first time. We are also particularly happy to be collaborating with

Summerhall and //BUZZCUT// to present this year’s opening event.

So leave any preconceptions at the door and enter the vibrant and colourful

world of the best of innovative, international visual theatre and film.

PERFORMANCES SCREENINGS FESTIVAL FILM PASS

TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH £15.50/£11.50/£6 £6 £20 0131 228 1404 www.traverse.co.uk

SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH £11.50/£6 0845 874 3001 www.summerhall.co.uk

LOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFE £10/£8 01592 583303 www.onfife.com

LEMON TREE, ABERDEEN £10 01224 641122 www.boxofficeaberdeen.com

THE ARCHES, GLASGOW £10/£8 0141 565 1000 www.thearches.co.uk

NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE £13/£10/£8/£5 £7/£5.50 £130/£115/£40/£30 01603 629921 www.puppettheatre.co.uk

PERFORMANCE

PRESENTS...

Design: weared8.com Cover Image: TO THE END OF LOVE – Tip Connection (Photo credit: Kari Vainio)

//BUZZCUT//@ manipulate SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY, 7.00PM SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH

THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTH- QUAKES

TO THE END OF LOVE


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TIP CONNECTION / FINLAND, 60‘MONDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHSATURDAY 2 FEBRUARY, 7PM LEMON TREE, ABERDEENWEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY, 7PM LOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFEFRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE

When a happy young bride is left alone in her husband’s splendid castle she discovers quite by chance that there have been other women before her. Driven by passion and unceasing curiosity, she enters the hidden space of her man’s secrets and is led down a dangerous path of self-exploration and possibly, to the end of love…

Inspired by the legendary tale of Blue Beard’s Castle, TIP Connection - a group of dynamic young theatre artists from Finland, France, Lithuania and Russia - has created a stylish and powerful piece of visual theatre which wordlessly explores the perils and peculiarities of the green-eyed jealousy we can all feel so painfully when confronted by a loved one’s past.

This performance has no spoken dialogue.

www.tip-connection.com

A WORLD OF FROCKS, ROBES AND OMNIPRESENT PETTICOATS, THROUGH MARVELLOUS ANIMATION THESE SIMPLE MEANS ARE INVESTED WITH UNUSUAL SENSUALITY AND EROTICISM...THEY GUIDE US INTO THE SINGULARLY EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLD OF A WOMAN AT THE END OF LOVE...I TOTALLY SUCCUMBED TO ITS VISUAL POWER. TEATR LALEK

THE QUAY BROTHERS’ LONG AWAITED SECOND FEATURE... VISUALLY AND AURALLY STUNNING, A TYPICALLY ECCENTRIC GOTHIC FANTASY WITH A SULTRY ATMOSPHERE...TIME OUT

BIZZARE, OPERATIC DRAMA... ONE OF THE MOST VISUALLY STRIKING FILMS YOU’LL SEE IN THIS – OR ANY - YEAR... THE USE OF IMAGERY IS ASTOUNDINGFILM REVIEW

DIR: THE BROTHERS QUAY / GERMANY, ISRAEL 2005, 99’, CERT. 15MONDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 9.15PMTRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by the malevolent Doctor Droz. Felisberto, a piano tuner with an uncanny resemblance to Malvina’s fiancé, tries to rescue her but Droz is plotting to trap both of them in his perverse universe forever.

Strongly influenced by the rich and diverse traditions of Eastern European animation, particularly the work of Jan Svenkmajer, the Brothers Quay have been making innovative films in their unique style for the past 30 years.

Language: English

THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES

TO THE END OF LOVE

SCREENING: FEATURE FILM

DIR: TOMAS LUNAK / CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY 2011, 84’, CERT 15TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY, 9.15PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

The late 1980s: Alois Nebel, a lonely signalman at a remote train station on the Czech-German border, is tormented in his dreams by the ghosts of a murky past. He encounters a mute stranger who appears out of nowhere, and finds himself mysteriously involved with a murder in Poland.

Tomas Lunak’s award-winning feature film debut is based on the popular graphic novels trilogy by the Czech artists Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99, and was produced by Negativ, one of the Czech Republic’s most successful independent production companies.

Language: Czech, with English subtitles


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NUKU THEATRE / ESTONIA, 60’TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

A story for everyone who is young at heart. A story about creating and exploring our own worlds, of capturing our ideas, our memories and our secret childhood secrets. A story about making them explode into larger than life just by thinking about them, by reading them out loud or by whispering them to friends.

With these awakening worlds and their melodic whispers, we’ll break free through a haze of dreams to surface with our hopes and delight intact. It’s a story, all right. But a story only you can truly describe!

Created by performers from the Estonian State Puppet & Youth Theatre, exuberant and assured group and solo characterisation is balanced with striking, larger than life puppet characters created and animated joyfully before our eyes.

This performance has some dialogue.

www.nuku.ee

A WILD GROWLING HAPPINESS

A BEAUTIFULLY PLAYFUL AND POWERFUL PRODUCTION, USING SIMPLE AND INNOVATIVE ELEMENTS TO CREATE A MARVELLOUSLY DYNAMIC AND JOYFUL PIECE OF ENSEMBLE THEATRE. TALLINN TREFF FESTIVAL 2012,

JURY PRIZE

THE ANIMATION IS A SHEER WONDER...THE GLORY OF THE FILM LIES IN ITS ATMOSPHERE AND IMAGERYHOLLYWOOD REPORTER

WONDERFULLY EVOCATIVE... A MONOCHROME RELATION TO WALTZ WITH BASHIRFILMSIGHT

ALOISNEBEL

A WILD GROWLING HAPPINESS ALOIS NEBEL

THE ODYSSEY

THE PAPER CINEMA & BAC / ENGLAND, 75’WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHTUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY, 7.00PM THE ARCHES, GLASGOWFRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 7.00PM LOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFE

Nine years after the end of the Trojan War King Odysseus has still not returned home. In his absence, his house has been besieged by suitors who are after his crown, his wife and his lands. All the while raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s almighty and enduring quest to return to hearth and home.

First appearing at manipulate in 2008, award-winning company The Paper Cinema returns with its epic new production of Homer’s cornerstone of world literature. Beautiful cinematic projection, cunning tricks and masterful animation transform a suitcase full of cut-out paper puppets into a rich array of living characters and striking landscapes.

This performance has no spoken dialogue

www.thepapercinema.com

BRINGS THE STORY’S EXCITEMENT TO LIFE IN A WAY WHICH MAKES YOU REMEMBER JUST HOW GOOD IT IS THE SCOTSMAN

IMMENSE SKILL... INGENIOUSLY EFFECTIVE THE TIMES

PERFORMANCE


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LOG JAM: KFJG No.5 DIR: ALEXEI ALEXEEV / HUNGARY, RUSSIA 2008, 2’

Three professional musicians try to rehearse in the forest, regardless of the circumstances.

CROCODILE DIR: KASPAR JANCIS / ESTONIA 2009, 17’

A former opera singer is disgusted by his life then a woman and a crocodile change everything.

WIND ALONG THE COAST DIR: IVAN MAXIMOV / RUSSIA 2003, 7’

The winds are strong here and life is mostly hard, but sometimes there are sweet moments.

AALTERATE DIR: CHRISTOBEL DE OLIVIERA / FRANCE 2012, 10’

A body experiences extreme inner tension as its mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space.

WELCOME TO KENTUCKY DIR: CRAIG WELCH / USA 2004, 12’

A planet unmoored, where the waters are rising and the song of the universe goes unheard.

NIGHTINGALES DIR: THEODORE USHEV / CANADA 2011, 3’

What would the world be like if the Nightingales went to work, instead of singing and flying south?

MADAME TUTLI PUTLI DIR: CHRIS LAVIS, MACIEK SZCERBOWSKI / CANADA 2007, 17’

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the Night Train, weighed down by all her possessions and ghosts of the past.

LOG JAM: SNAKE DIR: ALEXEI ALEXEEV / HUNGARY, RUSSIA 2008, 1’

Three professional musicians still try to rehearse in the forest, regardless of the circumstances.

FAST FILM DIR: VIRGIL WIDRICH / AUSTRIA, LUXEMBOURG 2003, 14’

A man rescues a lady in distress, but soon they find themselves in the enemy’s secret headquarters.

LOG JAM: THE MOON DIR: ALEXEI ALEXEEV / HUNGARY, RUSSIA 2008, 1’

Three professional musicians can’t stop rehearsing in the forest, regardless of the circumstances.

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THE PAPER CINEMA’S ODYSSEY

80’, NO CERT, 18+WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY, 9.15PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

FAST FILM, SLOW BURN: UNCOMMON SINGULARITY


AFTER THE WAVE

PHYSICAL THEATRE SCOTLAND, 80’THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHSATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 7PM LOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFE

A community laughs, works, plays, falls in and out of love – and life goes on.

But in the hazy outer fringes of this community’s world a dark plague lurks.

Without warning the community is invaded and engulfed by a great black wave of destruction and despair. What once was, is no more. The lives of survivors are reduced to a few meaningless possessions.

But despite the destruction all around them still there is laughter and light. It is found in those fleeting memories and simple moments of humanity we all recognise.

Inspired by images of tsunami victims huddled in cardboard box ‘homes’ and Maja Daniels’ baleful pictures of Alzheimer’s sufferers, Physical Theatre Scotland – a group of recent graduates and students from Adam Smith College’s Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice - uses life-size puppets, mask work and live music to explore how physical disasters located in the wider world are reflected in the human body. This production has been developed with support from manipulate’s SNAPSHOTS programme.

Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice [email protected]

WHAT SHINES THROUGH, IS A BELIEF IN THE BODY’S OWN PHYSICALITY AS A VEHICLE FOR EXPRESSING THE INNER-MOST STATES OF HEART AND MIND THAT DON’T ALWAYS TRANSLATE INTO WORDS THE HERALD

PERFORMANCE

YAEL RASOOLY / ISRAEL, 50’THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 9.15PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHSATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE

Every day the lonely and frustrated secretary of a big Hollywood producer remains in the office long after everyone else has gone home. Using photos from old film magazines, she escapes into a larger than life world of daydreams. As a glamorous movie star from the 1940’s she finds her ideal love at last and true happiness seems to beckon. But as the story unravels, as imagination and reality collide, her romantic tale becomes a Hitchcockian nightmare!

Yael Rasooly’s ingenious, award-winning one woman show transforms the vivid language and style of black and white cinema into a delightful low–tech universe of paper cut-outs and object theatre, creating a poignant tale full of laughter and heartache which has been received with great acclaim at festivals throughout the world.

www.yaelrasooly.com


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ONE OF THOSE ARTFULLY QUIRKY SOLO PERFORMANCES THAT MAKE THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL SO WORTH CHECKING OUT…MS. RASOOLY DEFTLY COMBINES PREMISE AND EXECUTION NEW YORK TIMES

WHEN THE PAPER-ENGINEERED ASPECTS OF THE PRODUCTION COMBINE WITH RASOOLY’S EXUBERANT AND COMICALLY CHARGED PERFORMANCE, IT’S TOUGH NOT TO GET SWEPT ALONG WITH HER AND THIS PRODUCTION’S INSPIRED WACKINESS THEATER MANIA

PAPERCUT

PERFORMANCE

AFTER THE WAVE

PAPER CUT

FINAL SPACE, OCEAN FLIGHT, MYTH & INFRASTRUCTURE: 3 SHORT WORKS

SCREENING: FEATURE FILM


CLOUD EYE CONTROL / USA, 60’FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHTHURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 7PM LOCHGELLY CENTRE, FIFE

Based in Los Angeles, this award-winning collaborative performance group appears in the UK for the first time at manipulate.

Final Space tells the original story of a young woman, Ina, beckoned out of her lucid dream state by a malfunctioning dream-sucking machine. Her body then merges with animation, and the relationship between her own memory and technology is tested.

In Ocean Flight, Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight is retold as a cyborg meeting of man and media, climaxing with Lindbergh’s fleeting metamorphosis into a winged creature.

And, in Myth and Infrastructure – Miwa Matreyek’s acclaimed solo performance – we enter a fantastical world which dissolves the barriers between the real and illusory.

Creating original works which combine interactive high and low-tech media with live performance, Cloud Eye Control’s work has been presented throughout North America. A central theme in the company’s work is the exploration of human adaptation in a technological world.

This performance has been supported by the USA Consulate

www.cloudeyecontrol.com

CLOUD EYE CONTROL TUG AT THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE WITH FILM AND VIDEO SAN FRANCISCO

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL, SEDUCTIVELY CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE LAList

MULTIMEDIA ARTIST MIWA MATREYEK TURNS HER SILHOUETTED SELF INTO A VIRTUAL MOBIUS STRIP FOR A BREATHTAKING ARRAY OF VARIEGATED ANIMATION STYLES. THE SHEER BREADTH OF THE IMAGERY IS UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU’VE SEEN BEFORE. IF THIS WERE A MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MATREYEK WOULD MERIT A PERMANENT WING LOS ANGELES TIMES

PERFORMANCE

SHOT FRAME-BY-FRAME USING MODELS, MULTIPLANE PAPER CUTOUTS AND TRADITIONAL PENCIL-DRAWN CARTOONS, THIS LABOUR OF LOVE FROM DO-IT-ALL ANIMATOR CHRIS SULLIVAN HAS THE SAME ROUGH-EDGED, CANTANKEROUS CHARMS AS THE CHARACTERS THAT POPULATE ITVARIETY

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FINAL SPACE, OCEAN FLIGHT, MYTH & INFRASTRUCTURE: 3 SHORT WORKS

CONSUMINGSPIRITS

Gentian Violet, Victor Blue and Earl Gray appear to be mere acquaintances but together they have a long and diabolical history. Each character has secrets to hide. Then one dark and inebriated night a car accident causes a crack in the memory vault of these three intimate strangers.

Nearly 15 years in the making, this film is a meticulously constructed tour de force of experimental animation. Shooting frame by frame in 16mm, Sullivan seamlessly blends together a range of techniques into a distinct, signature visual style.

Language: English

CONSUMING SPIRITSDIR: CHRIS SULLIVAN / USA 2012, 136’, CERT. 15

FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 9.15PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

TRANTER IS A PUPPETEER OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY, INFESTING LIFELESS FIGURES WITH MAGIC TO PROVIDE US WITH AN UNFORGETTABLE INSIGHT INTO THE EVIL WHICH CAN WARP THE HUMAN SPIRIT WIENER ZEITUNG

CHILLING, SINISTER, AND DARKLY HILARIOUS...TRANTER CREATES A MAGICAL ATMOSPHERE AND AS WE LAUGH AT THE ACCURATE PHYSICAL MANNERISMS AND VERBAL TICS WE KNOW SO WELL FROM NEWSREELS THESE CARICATURES TRANSCEND THEIR PUPPET ORIGINS TO DELINEATE FOR US THE AWFUL BANALITY OF EVIL DE VOLKSKRANT

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STUFFED PUPPET THEATRE / NETHERLANDS, 90’SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGHTHURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY, 7.30PM NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE

It is the Führer’s 56th birthday. Knowledge of the impending Nazi downfall hangs over the claustrophobic underground bunker where forced merriment and celebration is about to take place.

While explosions make the ceiling shake, Hitler’s agitation about his birthday cake, Eva Braun’s dreams about marriage to the Führer, Goebbels’ obsession with propaganda and Goering’s delight with his impressive uniforms obliterate any thought about the death and mayhem all about them, they have far more important things to think about.

When the end becomes inevitable, a decision must be made about the children in the bunker. But Hitler is far more worried about the fate of Blondie, his dog...

Over the past thirty years Neville Tranter’s combination of wicked, down to earth humour, deadly seriousness and virtuoso puppetry has won him international acclaim throughout the world.

www.stuffedpuppet.nl

PERFORMANCE SCREENING: FEATURE FILM

SCHICKLGRUBER... ALIAS ADOLF HITLER

BIG MAN JAPAN

DIR: HIROSHI MATSUMOTO / JAPAN 2008, 113’, CERT. 15SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 9.15PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

Daisato is a middle-aged man living alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. He periodically transforms into a giant, about 100 feet tall, and defends Japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings. Sadly, Daisato’s tough job doesn’t seem to be appreciated by any of the citizens he protects.

Written and directed by the popular Japanese comedian Hotoshi Matsumoto, this deadpan, slice-of-life mockumentary satirises reality TV and monster movies with a lively sense of the absurd and the perverse.

This screening has been supported by Scotland Loves Animation

Language: Japanese, with English subtitles

IF CHRISTOPHER GUEST MADE A JAPANESE MONSTER MOVIE, THE END RESULT MIGHT BE BIG MAN JAPANSCI FI WIRE

A SMART SPOOF OF THE JAPANESE MONSTER MOVIE GENREMOVIE DEAREST

SCHICKLGRUBER... ALIAS ADOLF HITLER

BIG MAN JAPAN


ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS


VOX MOTUS / SCOTLAND, 80’WEDNESDAY 13 – SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY MATINEE: SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY, 2.00PM TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH

Nine years old and permanently attached to his skateboard, Little Malky’s sole aim in life is to convince his neglectful parents to buy him a helmet.

All that changes the day crude oil starts oozing up through the family’s toilet. Elation turns to desperation as Malky’s parents attempt to keep their new-found wealth a secret. When the grown-ups start trading oil for arms Malky is caught at the centre of an explosive showdown as his family goes to war with the neighbours...

SLICK is a hilarious, dark and dirty exploration of greed, corruption and the all too easy loss-of-innocence.

SLICK combines absurd comedy, visual storytelling, puppetry, object theatre and physical performance to create a unique ensemble performance with comic-strip visuals.

We are delighted that this award-winning show begins a national tour at this year’s manipulate.

www.voxmotus.co.uk

A FAULTLESS, FAST-PACED, BRILLIANT SENSE OF STYLE… A CUTTING-EDGE COMIC-STRIP SHOW FOR THEATRE THAT COMBINES THE PATHOS OF OLIVER TWIST WITH THE SAVAGE SATIRE OF VIZ MAGAZINE... A SHOW WHOSE WHOLE CREATIVE TEAM DESERVES A STANDING OVATION THE SCOTSMAN

SLICK BY NAME AND CONSPICUOUSLY SLICK BY NATURE. HERE’S A SHOW TO GLADDEN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO ADMIRE THE ACTING AND WRITING OF BRITISH THEATRE BUT HANKER AFTER THE TECHNICAL WIZARDRY AND PUNCTILIOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL OF COMPANIES WITH LONG PEDIGREES IN EASTERN EUROPE THE TIMES

PERFORMANCE

SLICKSLICK

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SNAPSHOTS

TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH Introduced by leading Scottish animator Iain Gardner, four recent graduates from the Edinburgh College of Art’s Animation Department show us and talk about one of their award-winning short films, all in 30 minutes before our 7.30pm manipulate event.

ALL THAT GLISTERS CLARE LAMOND TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY, 6.05PM, 30’

TEA PARTY VITALIJ SICHINAVA WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY, 6.05PM, 30’

I AM TOM MOODY AINSLIE HENDERSON FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 6.05PM, 30’

THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD WILL ANDERSON SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 6.05PM, 30’

SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 2.30PM, 60’ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH Performance critic Gareth Vile presents a participatory seminar focusing on experiments with new ways of presenting critical writing and the development of a wider diversity of voices in performance criticism.

SNAPSHOTS: PLATFORM PERFORMANCE SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 4.00PM, 60’ SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH Both recipients of recent Puppet Animation Scotland Creative Fund awards, these Scottish companies present their current works in progress.

ARMS WIDE OPEN FREEFALL... Hope is the first thing to enter a relationship and the last thing to leave.

FERAL TORTOISE IN A NUTSHELL

A multimedia exploration of fragile cityscapes and the communities that inhabit them inspired by the London riots of 2011.

SNAPSHOTS: 6.05 THE BOUNDARIES OF ART: AN EXPLORATION WITH GARETH VILE

SHOW ME A STORY

ANNA IVANOVA-BRASHINSKAYA / RUSSIASUNDAY 3 – TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY, 10.00AM-5.00PM SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGHTHURSDAY 7 – SATURDAY 9 FEBRUARY, 10.00AM – 5.00PM NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE

Leading Russian director and teacher Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya presents a workshop about visual narration which introduces participants to the basic elements of dramatic art when applied to wordless storytelling.

Starting with an exploration of aesthetics and theory, participants will then develop their knowledge and understanding through a series of individual and group practical assignments. The participants will also work together on a classical text suggested by Anna and will experiment with various ways to interpret its plot imaginatively and successfully on stage without words.

Anna was born in St Petersburg in 1965 and has worked in professional puppet theatre and theatre education for over 20 years. Between 1995 and 2001 she was a professor and the Head of the Puppetry Department at the St Petersburg Arts Academy. Since 2001 Anna has taught at the Turku Academy of Arts in Finland and continues to work prolifically, writing about puppetry and directing visual and puppet theatre shows.

Anna conceived and directed To the End of Love, the opening production of this year’s manipulate.

www.annaivanovapuppetry.wordpress.com

MASTERCLASS

RENE BAKER / ENGLANDWEDNESDAY 6 – FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 10.00AM – 5.00PM SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH

A practical workshop for actors and puppeteers which examines the task of the visible manipulator when humans and objects share the stage.

Participants will discover how varying levels of presence and neutrality can be used for dramatic purpose. They will experience different ways of using body and mind to shift the focus between themselves, the puppet or object, and back again, learning to manage multiple characters as a solo performer.

Rene Baker has worked in professional puppet theatre throughout Europe for over 20 years as a performer, director, designer, teacher and researcher. Since 1998 Rene has been developing her own training method for animating puppets, objects and materials, and is currently investigating the wider use of objects in theatre.

www.renebaker.org

MASTERCLASS

SHIFTING FOCUS

SHOW ME A STORY

SHIFTING FOCUS


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manipulate Visual Theatre Festival and our visiting companies gratefully acknowledge the support of our partners:

Is dedicated to the advocacy for, and the development and celebration of visual theatre, puppetry and animation in Scotland.

Through our manipulate programmes Scottish theatre artists and animators have the opportunity to engage meaningfully with creativity of the highest quality from around the world.

In the six years since our first festival in Dundee manipulate has presented the theatre and film of international artists from: Armenia, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

During 2013 Puppet Animation Scotland will be working in partnership with the Northern & Eastern European Centre for Puppetry Arts in Estonia, the Maribor Puppet Theatre in Slovenia, and the Festival Mondial Des Theatres De Marionettes in France, to present the work of leading Scottish artists in these countries.

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