Created and performed by Kevin Augustine

Uccompanied by an electroacoustic score, Kevin Augustine animates his puppet cast of oversized body limbs with his hands and feet in a rigorous solo choreography. Revealing the quiet beauty of our shared human journey, BODY CONCERT is a wordless meditation on life's beautiful impermanence.

Kevin Augustine: Forever inspired by a hand-stitched sock puppet given by his grandmother, Kevin's life’s work rests on discovering he too could make his own toys. Forming Lone Wolf Tribe in 1997, his mission remains: create intelligent, intimate and highly physical puppet theatre about our collective human story. As the eponymous lone wolf of his puppet tribe, he is writer/director/performer and self-taught puppet maker-- fashioning his foam friends from repurposed couch cushions.

Mark Bruckner (Composer/Sound Designer) is an Innovative Theater and Audelco Award-winning composer and music director, and a Henry Hewes American Theatre Wing sound design nominee. Mark splits his time between NYC and the University of Iowa where he is a Visiting Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Interdisciplinary Artist. His electro-acoustic, ambisonic score for Body Concert was featured in the development of Body Concert at the 2019 International Saison de Theatre Insolite in TroisÐivieres, Quebec, sponsored by Les Sage Fous Theatre.

Transdisciplinary project, which mixes music, visual arts, theater and digital arts; we are working on the emergence of an unprecedented common material.

The company's projects are built from a desire for puppets, visual or sound machines, movements. They integrate computers, microcontrollers and other digital creation assistants or not. They experiment with the relationship between these media and construct transdisciplinary poetic proposals.

Mia and Anna are dating. An intimate friendship is born, in which Anna Mia helps protect herself from painful memories and hardships of everyday life. But over time, Anna becomes the dominant and terrifying figure in Mia's life. Mia is trapped in a grim game played by Anna. The only way for Mia is to realize that maybe she created Anna herself, that she is Anna.

Dis Order is a psychological drama about eating disorders inspired by the diaries of Cat Smits and the scientific research of Marlie Rekkers, who was Smits' psychologist 15 years ago. The script of the play was prepared by Christine Otten on the basis of autobiographical and fictional events.

Dis Order combines play, puppetry and dancing with the films of Sunny Bergman. Such a combination causes a touching engagement of viewers in the internal struggle, which every person experiences to a greater or lesser extent; The battle between light and darkness.

Concept, performer: Cat Smits
Scripy: Christine Otten
Documentary filmmaker: Sunny Bergman

A universal story about the fate of the artist.

The performance is maintained in the convention of a concert with elements of stand-up. On stage, Kazio is accompanied by “Mazi”, a friend and multi-instrumentalist, who uses looper, instruments and non-obvious objects such as a Coca-Cola can, a spray, a meter, to create music for the audience.

The only thing in the show is a song. Each of them is created in a different musical style, and thematically entertaining way tell about the life and problems of Kazio-artist.

One doll. One looper. Two actors. Twelve original songs. Live music and stories of togetherness taken. Stand-up and musical in interactive formula.

As soon as the audience enters the show starts and no one - neither the audience nor the creators - knows in which direction the show will go. 'Cause Kazio's got the rudder, and that's what it says.

Between kitsch and glitter, between art and turtle, the field opens up for improvisation for Kazio. What is the condition of the artist in the modern world?

Directed, screenplay, set design: Anna Makowska-Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Mazoń
Music: Gregory Mazoń
Song lyrics: Anna Makowska-Kowalczyk
Lighting direction: Alicja Pietrucka
Cast: Kazio Sponge, Anna Makowska-Kowalczyk, Grzegorz Mazoń
Duration: approx. 120 min

A visual poem with elements of magic imagination, absurdity and grotesqueness.

The performance combines physical theatre, animation of material and objects with the principles of visual art theatre. It is an excursion to an unknown area where nothing reminds us of our everyday awake life. It is discovering of the areas which ancient cartographers described as ‘hic sunt dracones’.

Directed by: Pavel Štourač
Cast: Sara Bocchini, Katarzyna Šobáňová, Ludmiła Ješutová, Diana Khwaja
Visual concept, stage design: Helena Štouračová, Pavel Štourač
Music / Sound design: Jakub Štourač
Light-design: Tomáš Morávek
Production: Zuzana Bednarčiková
Booking: Nikola Križková

Pedagogical care: Anna Makowska-Kowalczyk
Lighting direction: Zofia Pinkiewicz
Music (songs): Grzegorz Mazoń
Cast: Zofia Bąk, Dominika Budzianowska, Katarzyna Fornal, Patrycja Franczak, Bartłomiej Golisz, Arkadiusz Jaskot, Mateusz Nowak, Jan Stasiczak, Magdalena Wawrzyniak

Examination of third-year students of the Puppetry Faculty on the subject "Acting in a puppet setting".

Malina Prześluga's art is inspired by the women's strike that broke out in Poland in response to the tightening of the abortion law.

The show tells the story of a girl - from birth to the moment when she became a mother. Problems with puberty, sexuality, lack of sexual education, repeating patterns. Can fear motivate? Does fear shut you down?

The performance was created as part of the "Acting in Puppet Stage" classes in the third year at the Puppetry Faculty. Using the language of theater of form, the students created a universal story about the fear that has accompanied human since birth.

One day transforms into another, and just as the days transform, so do we.
There is a short - click - between the days - if you manage to get into this click, you notice something amazing, which I noted in my psychedelic diary.
I meet two demons who make me the plaything of their transformations.
"My Psychedelic Diary" is an airily woven structure of personal cosmology.
We all live among our spirits, our spirits invent our thoughts, and our thoughts invent our decisions.
Or, conversely, we live between our choices, our choices invent our thoughts, and our thoughts invent our spirits.
The spirits we summon call back.
A great inspiration for this performance was Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams".
"A dream is a wish come true."

Puppet show, set design, text: Christoph Bochdansky
Choreography: Rose Breuss
Music: David Müller

Marcin Bartnikowski

Nieosobni - a romantic program in four parts lined with mycology, esotericism and psychotronics

Creative insatiability is generally a necessary and desirable phenomenon. A hungry artist is a prolific artist. However, we are interested in the unsaid consequences of creative insatiability; the shameful and undesirable ones.

Inspired by the exhibition "Białoszewski. nieosobny" - presented last year at the Wola Museum - the performance is a dream fantasy of the 1950s. This is a story about a time when creative hunger existed alongside acute physical hunger. These were the realities of mutilated post-war Warsaw, where the Teatr na Tarczyńskiej and the Teatr Osobny were created. Its creators, practicing art that was ahead of their times, created a unique and colorful artistic commune in which extraordinary theatrical, artistic, literary, philosophical and esoteric ideas were hatched. It is no coincidence that the guests of the separate theater included Allan Ginsberg, Simone de Bouvoir, and Jean Paul Sartre. We want to resurrect theater that, by denying the psychological reproduction of life, became life itself and flowed beyond its framework. We recall art that, created in conditions of material poverty, infected people with hunger for life. The hunger for life has created a strong, creative and ephemeral community.

Direction: Marcin Bartnikowski, Marcin Bikowski
Dramaturgy: Marcin Bartnikowski
Scenography, costumes and puppets: Marcin Bikowski
Music: Anna Stela
Choreography: Marta Bury
Artistic supervision: Katarzyna Szumlas
Cast: Marcin Bartnikowski, Marcin Bikowski

Noah tells a story of a conductor. His task is to direct a performance, reading from the score titled The Flood. Unfortunately, seeing what is ahead of them, the orchestra players are get scared to death and disappear. The conductor is left behind with the instruments and the disappointed audience. The situation forces him to take action and become an instrumentalist. He starts playing only to hear that the sounds and the words coming out of the instruments forecast the impending doom. The conductor is trying to postpone the inevitable with various tricks of his own device, creating new music and new history. The audience joins the game of pushing the end away. When Noah/Conductor have boarded the Ark, he starts the performance again with selected members of the audience. As the concert ends, Noah faces a dilemma… He leaves his wife and the animals on shore and sails on. The flood keeps on flooding and Noah keeps on flooding.

Script and direction: Adam Walny
Music: Jan Wyszkowski
Premiere: WERTEP Festival, August 2015

In the future, robots coexisted with human beings.
The world moved on and the robots did their job helping people, until they began to think for themselves.
The government was not happy with this, and ordered to lock up and destroy all the robots on the planet.
And so the robots were almost extinct. Almost.
One day, Clara, a girl in a wheelchair, goes a long way from her home and arrives at a concentration camp.
There she meets a robot, probably the last robot on planet Earth.
This is how they start a deep friendship based on silence and understaning.
But something terrible happened and they were separated.
70 years later the robot awakens and begins the search for Clara, in a world that has changed, and where intolerance of difference reigns.

Original idea: David Zuazola
Direction: Marek b. Chodaczyński
Music: Marek Żurawski
Adaptation: Marek b. Chodaczyński, David Zuazola
Puppet design: David Zuazola

Direction, music: Dora Bouzková
Stage design: Magdalena Prousková-Koděrová
Translation: Michał Sieczkowski
Cast: Dora Bouzková

The family of Lupitina, a little Mexican girl, is getting ready to celebrate All Soul’s Day, which in local culture is a colourful and joyful holiday, a meeting of death and life. The living make merry together with the departed, with whom they converse and sing their favourite songs, and for whom they prepare their beloved meals. The magical, extremely sincere, and lively spectacle by Dora Bouzková is addressed to the youngest audience and told in the language of the child. The by no means easy topic of departure is treated with a certain distance and humour, while retaining an awareness of the complex emotions accompanying it and bringing us closer to the very essence of the problem. By taming the theme of death it reminds us that the latter remains a natural part of every life.

Having lived within an ongoing exile, Karim’s life is standing at the crossroads. The performance itself mirrors his war memories. When his friend lost his arm during the Gulf War, Karim the child, whose life was shaped by three wars even more, became interested in the Silver screen, especially sci-fi movies. In different countries he arrived to, a war took place. Was he a War Maker?
Based on Palestinian artist Karim Shaheen’s true story, War Maker is a voyage into Karim’s dreams and delusions.
War Maker is a multidisciplinary theatre performance that blends Visualart, new media with documentary and object theatre.

Director: Husam Abed
Dramaturge: Marek Turošik
Art director: Astrid Mendez
Prop. and stage designer: Katarina Cakova
Choreography: Ryuji Yamaguchi
Sound and Light design: Matej Vejdelek
Film and editing: Reka Deak, Dmitri Berzon
On stage: Husam Abed, Matej Vejdelek

With the support of Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC/Beirut), Atelier Libusin, Capital City of Prague, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, City District of Prague 7 - Art District, Alfred ve Dvore, Moment Maribor