Can puppetry bring important social and ethical issues even to the youngest audience members? Can it address all the age groups? Does it move the borders of puppetness? Does it open the door for other art genres? And do they open the door to puppetry?
Welcome to the zeroth edition of PRIENIKY theatre festival – the rendezvous with art touched by puppetry. Touch, overlap, inspiration, theme – the main dramaturgical principles of a festival which offers a variety of creative approaches, breaks prejudices and demonstrates diversity of performative art. Puppetry intersects with installation art, material with acrobatics, micro-object with movement, movement with music, film with puppetry. Puppet transcends space, word transcends sound, technologies transcend art for children. All this occurs against the backdrop of resonating issues. From the search for authenticity, the power of imagination and the beauty of the present moment in Comodo through the Dog’s life for those who stand up to growing force of ideology, The War of the Worlds reflecting the phenomenon of the power of the new forms of mass media, We are the power – sonic evocation of the Pussy Riot legacy, to Microworlds, which lead us away from the big world to the small, fragile and vulnerable aspects of our human existence.
The zeroth edition of the festival is unique by being a part of the opening ceremony of the reconstructed building of Bratislava puppet theatre. That is why it includes selected productions of artists who worked at our theatre over the past years and thus participated in the formation of its identity. During the festival, you will see 10 exceptional productions in the main programme, three premieres of Bratislava puppet theatre and thirteen productions included in the accompanying programme – four theatre productions, three concerts, three street attractions, two exhibitions, theatre miniatures of students from The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and five theatre workshops.
Let’s experience empathy, solidarity, acceptance and authenticity together. Let’s celebrate the diversity of creative methods intersected by puppetry.
Katarína Aulitisová
Organiser:
Bratislavské bábkové divadlo
Ing. Ján Brtiš, executive director
www.babkovedivadlo.sk
www.prieniky.sk
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR:
Katarína Aulitisová
PROGRAMME:
Katarína Aulitisová
Martin Krč
PRODUCTION, OFFLINE MARKETING:
Katarína Fridrichová
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Markéta Plachá
CONTENT CREATOR:
Soňa Pasuľková
FUNDRAISING, VOLUNTEERS:
Miroslav Tauchmann
Miroslav.tauchmann499@gmail.com
HEAD TECHNICIAN:
Ľuboš Hodás
GUEST SERVICE:
Monika Fialová