PUPPETRY PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Chamber Hall of Tallinn City Theatre, Lai 19
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Teisipäev/ Tuesday
02.06
12.30
SCHOOL AND THEATRE - WHAT KIND OF AN ACTOR IS NEEDED IN MODERN PUPPET THEATRE
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya (Finland)
in Russian wiht translation into English
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya was born in St. Petersburg in Russia in 1965. She has worked as a programme manager in the Puppet Theatre Department of the Turku Arts Academy in Finland since 2003; in 1995-2001 she was the head of the same department. She graduated the Department of Theatre Research in the St. Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy with a master’s degree in 1990 and defended her doctoral thesis titled The Semantics of the Traditional Movement Methods of Puppets there in 1995. She has given presentations on puppetry art at several international conferences, written dozens of articles about puppet theatre and been a jury member at various theatre festivals, including the Golden Mask festival in Russia.
Discussion partners:
Marek Waszkiel (Poland)
Rosita Raud (Estonia)
Vyacheslav Borisov (Russia)
Rein Agur (Estonia)
Jevgeni Ibragimov (Estonia)
Joana Cizauskaite (Lithuania)
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Wednesday
03.06.
12.30
CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS IN THE EUROPEAN PUPPETRY
Marek Waszkiel (Poland)
in English with translation into Russian
Marek Waszkiel is a general and artistic director of the Bialystok Puppet Theatre since 2005. In 1977-2005 he worked as a researcher of puppetry history for the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He was also the editor of the Theatrical Diary and the editor-in-chef of the Biographical Dictionary of the Polish Theatre. Simultaneously, since 1977 he is the permanent professor of history of puppetry at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, where in 1999-2005 he was the vice-rector, responsible for the Puppetry Art Department in Bialystok. He has published many studies on puppetry in Poland, as well as many articles about puppet theatre all over the world. He also co-operates with many puppet theatres and festivals in several countries as a puppetry art consultant.
Discussion partners:
Rene Baker (United Kingdom)
Rosita Raud (Estonia)
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya (Finland)
Alexander Stavissky (Russia)
Cariad Astles (United Kingdom)
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Thursday
04.06.
13.00
PUPPET-LIKE THINKING IN MODERN ART
Rosita Raud (Estonia)
in Russian wiht translation into English
Rosita Raud was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and after finishing school there she went to study to the Theatre Academy of what is now St. Petersburg, but was called Leningrad at that time. Since graduating in 1987 she has been living and working in Tallinn, Estonia as a theatre designer, installation artist and artistic photographer. She has also taught at several universities.
Her special affection is puppet theatre, and she has frequently made use of puppet-related stage technologies in drama productions as well. Puppets have also influenced her in creating installations: she has always been interested in the stories that things have to tell, and in her view this is what makes them alive.
Discussion partners:
Anders Härm (Estonia)
Jan Kaus (Estonia)
Marek Waszkiel (Poland)
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya (Finland)
Hartmut Lorenz (Germany)
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Friday
05.06.
12.30
MATERIALS AND DIRECTING METHODS IN PUPPET THEATRE
Rene Baker (United Kingdom)
in English with translation into Russian
Rene Baker (born in London, 1960) is a specialist in puppet and object theatre, and during the past twenty years has worked as a performer, designer, director, pedagogue, investigator and consultant. Since 1998 she has been developing her own training method for bringing puppets, objects and materials to life, and has led workshops in England, Norway, Finland, Spain and Estonia. From 1998-2005 she taught regularly at the Central School of Speech and Drama (London) and from 2005-2008 taught and directed performances at the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona). She is currently a freelance pedagogue and director.
Discussion partners:
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya (Finland)
Rosita Raud (Estonia)
Agata Glutch (Poland)
Aleksandr Inyutochkin (Ukraine)
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Lecture
Yard of St Olav Hotel, Lai 5
31.05.
11.00
Anna Ivanova Brashinskaya
ABOUT STREET THEATRE
In the framework of Tallinn’s Treff Festival 2009 an EU project Culture on the Streets will be launched in which the Estonian Puppet and Youth Theatre will cooperate with the Lėlė Puppet Theatre from Lithuania and the modern dance flag ship Yvette Bozsik Company from Hungary. This will bring street theatre training seminars to Tallinn’s Treff Festival and in 2010 everyone will already be able to see the partner theatres’ street performances on the streets of Tallinn.