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Zagreb to host international puppet festival
Croatian Times
The 43rd PIF, an international puppet festival, will be held in Zagreb from 28 August to 3 September.
The Festival will feature largely-professional puppet-theatre groups. This year, 26 shows from 21 theatres will be on offer.
The festival will open with a living puppetry classic, "Extraordinary Concert," Sergei Obraztsov’s most-famous and most-frequently-performed show played by the Central National Academic Puppet Theatre from Moscow.
More than 450 theatres on all continents have participated in the festival.
The shows are performed in numerous theatre halls, as well as in the streets and squares of Zagreb.
This year's PIF will present the rod-puppet technique, especially the Javanese technique.
The so-called Javanese rod-puppet technique is based on traditional Indonesian wayang golek. It consists of a three-dimensional puppet on a pole manipulated from underneath by a puppeteer hidden behind a screen. In one hand, the puppeteer holds a pole the length of which runs through the puppet's body to its head, while in the other hand he holds small rods or wires that manipulate the doll's hands.
In Talentoskop, an experimental programme, PIF will present the work of Dutch artist Eduard de Paiva Suza – Duda Paiva. He will chair a two-day dance and puppetry workshop.
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