Celebration Parade
HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY, UKWANDA PUPPETS & DESIGNS ART COLLECTIVE
European Premiere
Elephants in sight! The grey giants travel across the Ruhr region.
Celebrate when and where you can! For three days in a row we will be doing this in Essen, Duisburg and Bochum in the Landschaftspark, at Zollverein and in the Westpark, when a pair of elephants cross the Ruhr region together with their young. Instead of real elephants, life-sized artist-built creatures will explore the area. They are presented by the Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa, famous around the world for their fantastic creations (including War Horse and Little Amal), working here in collaboration with the Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective. These are the Celebration Parade’s first stops in Europe and, accompanied by music, it will explore it surroundings and invite school classes, children and families to make their own animal figures in advance at school and at the Festival Centre that they can then bring to life in the parade. A celebration you won’t forget!
Produced by Handspring Puppet Company and Ukwanda Puppets & Design Collective. In Cooperation with the Figurentheater-Kolleg Bochum. Supported by Figurentheaterkolleg e.V. Commissioned by WOMADelaide 2024.
Build your Puppet! - Puppet building workshop for the Celebration Parade
During our Celebration Parade, a pair of elephants and their offspring will be exploring Bochum's Westpark on Saturday, 31st August. The colourful spectacle also attracts native animal species curious about the visit from South Africa. These are built and crafted by young and old festival visitors themselves: Under professional guidance, children and families can make their own animal figures and then use them to accompany the musical parade at 2 p.m., 3.30 pm or 5 p.m. In addition to building the figures, the workshop will also provide some practical tips on how to impressively bring the animal figures to life.
Age guidance
open for all ages
Run time
The workshop will take place from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Wunderland Festival Centre and can be attended at any time without registration.
„The celebration is on many levels. I think it is an awareness of endangered animals on the one hand but also a celebration of an achievement of your own creativity.“
Cast
- Production
- Handspring Puppet Company
- Artistic Direction
- Basil Jones ,
- Adrian Kohler
- Puppetry Director
- Craig Leo ,
- Enrico Wey
- Puppeteers & Training
- Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective (Siphokazi Mpofu, Luyanda Nogodlwana, Sipho Ngxola, Asanda Rilityana)
- Handspring Education Director
- Jill Joubert
- Creative Producers
- Quaternaire (Sarah Ford, Felicitas Willems) ,
- Sarah Ford ,
- Felicitas Willems
- Band
- Adrian Probst (Susaphon) ,
- Simon Camatta (Snaredrum) ,
- Maximilian Wehner (Trombone)
- Puppeteers
- Kristina Feix ,
- Lutz Grossmann ,
- Emilien Truche ,
- Markus Schabbing
- Umbrella dancers
- Hanna Lampersberger ,
- Anna Schrepper ,
- Edelgard Haferkamp ,
- Louisa Duesmann ,
- Luisa van Kannen ,
- Katharine Pilgrim
- Production Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Bettina Geyer
- Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Georg Kolacki
Anreise und Anfahrt
Die Celebration Parade erkundet, begleitet von Musik, die Gelände rund um den Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, das UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein in Essen und den Westpark Bochum. Für Informationen zu Anreise und Anfahrt und über die Barrierefreiheit an den jeweiligen Orten, klicke auf die untenstehenden Kacheln.
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