{"id":4329,"date":"2020-01-24T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casteliers.ca\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2020-01-27T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:05:30","slug":"see-the-complete-15th-festival-de-casteliers-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casteliers.ca\/en\/see-the-complete-15th-festival-de-casteliers-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Now Available: 15th Festival de Casteliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casteliers Celebrates the 11th<\/sup> Art<\/strong><\/h3>\n

From Traditional to Contemporary!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Marking Festival de Casteliers\u2019 15th<\/sup> Anniversary!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Montr\u00e9al,<\/em> January 23, 2020<\/em> \u2500 Casteliers has launched its program for the 15th <\/sup>Festival de Casteliers<\/strong>, an exciting international event devoted to puppetry arts, to be held from March 4 to 8, 2020. For this anniversary edition, the Festival de Casteliers will host prestigious companies from China, Greece, Finland, Belgium, England and France, as well as puppeteers from Vancouver and Qu\u00e9bec. This year\u2019s line-up includes: ten shows<\/strong> for adults and children, critically acclaimed works and new creations waiting to be discovered. The festival will also include two special evenings: one devoted to short puppetry pieces and another to stop-motion animated short films.<\/p>\n

Program available here: festival.casteliers.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

To mark this 15th<\/sup> anniversary, this year\u2019s Festival de Casteliers will feature two shows that will take festival-goers on a journey from ancient Chinese shadow theatre to a very contemporary visual theatre that combines puppetry and digital arts. Kicking off the festival will be Shanghai Puppet Theatre\u2019s adaptation of the traditional tale Mulan<\/em><\/strong>. Presented for the first time in Canada, this spectacular production combines puppet theatre with majestic projections on a giant screen. The show for family audiences 5 years of age and over will be presented three times at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont.<\/p>\n

Closing the festival on a resolutely contemporary note, LoveStar<\/em><\/strong>, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Inclin\u00e9\u2019s (Laval) most recent creation, coproduced with Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Petite Mar\u00e9e (Bonaventure), will enchant audiences 8 years of age and older with this futuristic, dystopic story of love, loosely based on Icelandic writer Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason\u2019s novel of the same name. After first being presented in 2018 as part of Festival de Casteliers\u2019 Caf\u00e9-causerie \u2014 Budding creations! event, the complete show comes to Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont\u2019s main stage just in time for Casteliers\u2019 15th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n

Adults and teenagers won\u2019t be disappointed by this year\u2019s offering either. They will be treated to three Canadian premieres that reinvent contemporary puppetry by playing with matter and the human body or the digital arts to recount mythical, philosophical tales or stories based on world events.<\/p>\n

Anywhere<\/em><\/strong>, brought to us by Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l\u2019Entrouvert (France), tells the story of Oedipus\u2019 inner metamorphosis as his daughter, Antigone, watches and interacts with an ice puppet that gradually turns into water, then disappears into mist. A visual poem for audiences 12 years of age and over.<\/p>\n

Invisible Lands<\/em><\/strong>, a show for audiences 13 years of age and older, comes to us from Livsmedlet (Finland). It questions the way today\u2019s media report on the desperate situation faced by many migrants by playing with scale between the micro and the macro. Using their bodies as a landscape for miniature figures, they tell the story of a perilous journey into exile.<\/p>\n

Finally, Occa de l\u2019anima, <\/em><\/strong>loosely based on the worlds of Samuel Beckett and Mexican writer Oscar de la Borbolla, plays with distortion, as a body is altered, then rebuilt. In the process, we see our family ties in a new light. The show by Zona de t\u00edteres (Mexico-Montr\u00e9al) combines puppetry, singing, electroacoustic music and live video in a scenographic device called a \u201cvideocastel (for audiences 15\u00a0 years +).<\/p>\n

Casteliers will also showcase shows for the whole family, including Kazu dans la nuit<\/em><\/strong>, the long version of the short piece performed at the 2019 Festival de Casteliers, which won festival-goers\u2019 hearts. Founder of the Singe Diesel company (France), Juan Perez Escala invites us into his studio to tell us his Kazus, poems that combine visual imagery, puppetry and music (all audiences, 8 years +).<\/p>\n

The Hop Signor company comes to us from Greece for its first Canadian tour, presenting Giraffe,<\/em><\/strong> the endearing story of a money box that comes alive in the minds of its different owners. This show without words has been critically acclaimed wherever it has been performed (all audiences, 5 years +).<\/p>\n

Audiences will then be invited to hop aboard Ubus Th\u00e9\u00e2tre\u2019s (Qu\u00e9bec) travelling theatre to discover the tale of a pianist for whom music has suddenly gone silent. Le Piano \u00e0 Voile<\/em><\/strong> unfolds like a film musical or a visual symphony filled with puppets, shadows and emotions (all audiences, 7 years +).<\/p>\n

High Water<\/em><\/strong>, by Macromatter (Vancouver), is a wonderful example of the ingenuity of object theatre. This experimental and flamboyant performance will mesmerize children 5 years of age and older as well as adults. As water slowly fills a fish tank, objects appear and the tank becomes an epic record of historic civilizations masquerading as a cheap party trick.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the Festival de Casteliers is including an interactive show designed to spark the imagination of babies and toddlers (3 months to 3 years) and encourage them to explore. With CABAN<\/em><\/strong>, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Spiegel (Belgium) offers a cozy play area filled with imaginary places where musicians play and sing, going in and out, on top of and underneath the play structures. A unique, not-to-be-missed parent-child experience!<\/p>\n

In addition to these full-length shows, festival-goers 10 years of age and over can also attend an evening of short pieces, featuring three little gems: Graceland<\/em><\/strong> by the Tables Tournantes collective (Montr\u00e9al), Las Meninas<\/em><\/strong> by Dotted Line Theatre (England) and Hamster<\/em><\/strong> by Singe Diesel (France). Literature, art history and rock\u2019n\u2019roll are in store for this wacky, laughter-filled evening where many myths and legends get deconstructed.<\/p>\n

Film and puppetry fans alike will be thrilled by Animations transatlantiques<\/em><\/strong>, showcasing some of the best stop-motion animated short films from Qu\u00e9bec and Scotland, presented in partnership with the Festival Stop Motion Montr\u00e9al and the Edinburgh Short Film Festival (for adults and teen audiences, 13 years +).<\/p>\n

Puppetry has been addressing universal themes for thousands of years with great sensitivity and in ways unparalleled by any other art form: from the Oedipus myth to impossible love, from a tale of warriors to the migration crisis, from the nobility depicted in Las Meninas to the decadence of Elvis\u2026 Puppets continue to fascinate and amaze us \u2013 whether they are body or string puppets, made of foam, fabric or even ice; whether they are shadows, objects or miniature figures; whether they come to life on screen or in an aquarium; whether they are real or virtual. This year\u2019s anniversary edition of Festival de Casteliers is a true celebration of the 11th<\/sup> art, showcasing puppetry in its many forms, in both small and large venues across Montr\u00e9al, to the delight of the very young and the young at heart!<\/p>\n

Other Activities:<\/h3>\n

Once again, Festival de Casteliers puppets will take the Outremont borough by storm beginning February 10 with the launch of the 9th<\/sup> edition of the much-awaited walkabout exhibition Marionnettes en vitrines!<\/em> This year\u2019s exhibit, showcasing puppets from Louis Bergeron and his company Les Marionnettes du bout du monde based in Qu\u00e9bec City, will be displayed in some thirty shop windows and at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont. Festivities will continue beyond spring break with La rue des r\u00eaveries<\/em>, an exhibit of articulated puppets by Lucie \u00c9mard at the Galerie d\u2019Outremont from March 5 to March 29.<\/p>\n

On top of this great line-up of shows, this year\u2019s festival will also feature a caf\u00e9-causerie<\/strong>, an international roundtable discussion <\/strong>on puppet theatre festivals (Du Sud au Nord en passant par l\u2019Empire du Milieu)<\/em>, professional networking events<\/strong>, workshops for children <\/strong>and a presentation by the Qu\u00e9bec-Scotland creative cross-residency<\/strong> artists Flavia Hevia and Gavin Glover. Some thirty international presenters from around the world are expected to attend the festival.<\/p>\n

Partners:<\/h3>\n

Festival de Casteliers is pleased to collaborate with first-time partners Le Vivier, Le Ges\u00f9, Hexagram-UQAM, the Galerie d\u2019Outremont, Festival Stop Motion Montr\u00e9al and the Edinburgh Short Film Festival, as well as with its long-standing partners: Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont, the OBORO artistic centre, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Aux \u00c9curies, the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys, the Qu\u00e9bec Puppeteer Association (Association qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise des marionnettistes\u2014AQM) and UNIMA-Canada (the international association of puppeteers). And let\u2019s not forget the 7th<\/sup> OUF! Off-Casteliers festival that will be in full swing at the Pavillon Saint-Viateur, also known as the festival-goers headquarters!<\/p>\n

Desjardins\u2019 <\/strong>participation as the 15th<\/sup> Festival de Casteliers\u2019 Official Presenter is made possible thanks to the Caisse des Versants du mont Royal and the Caisse de la Culture.\u00a0<\/strong>Casteliers would also like to thank Realta<\/strong>, Holiday Inn Montreal Downtown<\/strong>, the French Consulate General in Qu\u00e9bec City<\/strong>, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais<\/strong>, the Consulate General of the People\u2019s Republic of China in Montr\u00e9al <\/strong>and the Confucius<\/strong> Institute <\/strong>for their generous support.<\/p>\n

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Casteliers is cofounder of the Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MIAM)<\/strong>, a new landmark promoting the 11th<\/sup> art in Outremont.<\/p>\n

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Complete festival program available:<\/strong><\/p>\n

festival.casteliers.ca<\/a><\/h2>\n

Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont box office: 514-495-9944, ext.1,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Online or at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont: <\/strong>theatreoutremont.ca<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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