A Brief Guide for Prospective Tightrope Walkers - For Schools
A Puppet Theatre for the brave
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Free admission
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T: 213 017 8002
Email: education@onassis.org
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Middle and High school students
November 2018 - May 2019
Introduction
Jumping-in-the-air-and-gravity-defying puppets come to meet you and tell you their big secret: “Nothing ties you to the ground; dance, you shan’t fall!”
We are all tightrope walkers, hence worthy of attaining freedom; this is what Jean Genet seems to be telling us in his famous lyrical manifesto “Le Funambule” (“The Tightrope Walker”, 1955), which has inspired this performance by the Ayusaya Puppet Theatre.
Puppet players, musician and dancer give life to hand-made puppets. Drawing inspiration from Genet’s instructions to the tightrope walker Abdallah Bentaga, to whom he dedicated his allegorical essay, our troupe invites us to discover the craftsman-artist inside us all and respond to the challenges he sets us in the art of living.
Photo: Kiki Papadopoulou
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