Internationales Pantomime- und Puppen
TheaterFestival Dresden, 19.9.-23.11.2019
a warm invitation
We have invited for you those mime artists and
puppeteers we consider to be the best, funniest,
most poetic or grotesque! We welcome you to
enjoy with us these great artists. Join our
International mime and puppet theater festival
Dresden!
have your magical moment
The PantomimeTheaterFestival Dresden has a 37-year history. Since the Mimenstudio Dresden as the festival's organizer is restructuring this year, the August Theater has taken over hosting the festival this year. Nevertheless, as every year, there will be a grand opening gala staged at Schuelerbuehne. Read more about our program and the artists.Program
Thu. Sept 19 8pm
Schülerbühne im Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden:
opening gala of the International Mime- & Puppet theater
festival Dresden 2019
Theater con Curore; Schlitz
Csaba Mehes, Ungarn
Duo Mimikry, Berlin
Nabil Zanabili, Berlin
Katja Grahl, Berlin
Hannah Senft, Berlin
AUGUST Theater DresdenPreußsches Marionettentheater, Berlin
Duckie L'Orange, Australien/Berlin
Arne König, Dresden
Sabine Soyk, Berlin/Pirnamore
Fri. Sept. 20. 8pm AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Pantomix
Pantomime-Theater-Show by Csaba Mehes, Hungaria
for the whole Familiy
Sat. Oct 12. 8pm
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Der Zauber des Pierrot
Varieté with mimes and Marionettes by Modern Mimes,
Berlin and Fischers Marionetten-Theater, Frankenberg/Sa.
Fri. Oct 18. 8pm AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Visual Short Stories
Kuriose Pantomime by Duo Mimikry, Berlin
Fri. Oct. 25.8pm
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Hear my Song
Musical puppet theater for teenagers and
Adults from 14 years with the theater con Cuore, Schlitz
Sat. Nov. 09. 8pm
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Cocktails
The new puppet theater performance by puppet theater
Raphael Mürle, Pforzheim
Sat. Nov. 23. 8pm
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Premiere: Casanovas ride home
Play with figures after the novel of the same name
by Arthur Schnitzler
by AUGUST Theater mit Puppen Dresden
opening gala
The puppeteers Stefan and Virginia Matz from the theater con
Curore guide you through the program with their characters from
the performance "Hear my Song".
Csaba Mehes is from Hungary and the funniest mime we can just
imagine. He was therefore already several times invited to Dresden
as we cannot get enough of him. And laughing is healthy.
Duo Mimikry from Berlin presents himself to the Dresden
audience first in the gala and later in her brilliant evening
performance "Visual short stories". They belong to a generation of
mimes that is edefining the art form based on their sound and
certified pantomime training in terms of rhythm, craziness and
speed.
Nabil Zanabili performed in 2017 with his play "Father and Son" at
the pantomime festival MIME> BERLIN. With the Duett Modern
Mimes he will perform a second time later during the festival.
Katja Grahl from Berlin is also part of the duo Modern Mimes and
an artist specializing in galas, dinner shows and city festivals, who
combines mime with dance and artistry.
Hannah Senft from Berlin combines like no other pantomimin lyric
style with absolutely grotesque craziness. She presents at the gala
"I know, black, gray". An absurdly funny, abstract visual essay
about being, appearance and nonbeing, in the above mentioned
"colors".
The Preußsches Marionettentheater from Berlin: Harald Preuß
presents scenes from „Die Zauberflöte“ and „Entführung aus dem
Serail“
Duckie L'Orange is an Australian performance artist based in
Berlin. Using her core artform, figurentheater, she delights and
surprises audiences with comedic and thoughful acts. She has had
a residency collaborating artistically with children at the Sydney
Opera House, worked for many years in contemporary puppetry
with Erth, moderated a steam punk carnival for the Catalan circus
Antigua i Barbuda and has toured Germany with Puppetry Slam
Deutschland. She has also created large scale outdoor
performances with communities in Indonesia and Freiburg. She is
the creator of her solo program Girls! Girls! Girls! and the
UfaFabrik's International Clown Slam.
Arne König is first and foremost known as mime artist in Dresden
as beeing member of the ensemble of the former Pantomimestudio
Dresden and stagings created in cooperation with the AUGUST
Theater and the joint performances with Duncan Cameron
"URKNALL".
AUGUST Theater Dresden: Fri. September 20 8pm Pantomix An all-evening, cheerful mime performance promising blissful entertainment. The scenes of light humor draw upon the typical root situations of comedy, displaying the tools of the classic Decroux mime technique. During the program the audience becomes a participant and active performer of the plot by way of games and improvisations. Among the funny etudes there might surface some scenes of deeper meaning often characterized by grotesque humor, yet easily understandable for the general public. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Sat. October 12. 8pm Der Zauber des Pierrot Varieté with mimes and Marionettes by Modern Mimes, Berlin and Fischers Marionetten-Theater, Frankenberg/Sa. The magic of imagination. Everything comes out of nowhere and could not be more colorful. A show dedicated to the original spirit of pantomime without stopping on old paths. Stilt walkers, human puppets, awakening mannequins and artistic insoles combine to form an exciting, entertaining show that has always something surprising to offer. In the center stands Pierrot. Pierrot is the outsider, the dreamer with all its facets and ways of playing. He wrestles with the world and tries to reconcile it with his dreams. It creates touching and comic moments that are told with ease. In alternation with short, slapstick-like scenes, a varied program is created for the whole family. Idea, Concept and Direction: Katja Grahl Quite different is the Variety with Fischer's puppets, which understands the history of the traditional puppet stages and conjures up a very close-to-the-people view of the characters on threads. This evening of variety show promises to be unique. Although the stories are very similar, their actors are once made of flesh and blood and on the other hand of wood and cloth, but all can in their own way awaken the Pierrot in us. Fri. October 18 8pm Visual Short Stories mime with Duo Mimikry, Berlin Welcome to the realm of your own imagination! Where are we? In the theater, which does not need a stage set or words, but only the body, joy of playing and the art of transformation, in "Visual Short Stories": What they do not hear, they see and what they do not see, just happens in their head! Duo Mimikry, these are Nicolas Rocher and Elias Elisha, two modern actors who describe the scene completely without words. For many years traveling internationally with programs that understand each language. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Fri. October 25 8pm Hear my Song Musical puppet theater for teens and adults from 14 years with the theater con Cuore, Schlitz A life story about two artists who lose themselves in life and find in music. Hilarious and poetic, witty and touching, exhilarating and disturbing. A roller coaster of emotions as only life makes possible. The street artist Vianne and the abandoned Marc meet in front of Vianne's theater. Marc, who feels like a poor dog, touches Vianne's heart and the two decide from now on together to go their artistic way. They play unnoticed more and more apart until the almost inevitable happens, Vianne leaves Marc. But the bond between them has not been completely cut yet. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Sat. November 09 8pm Cocktails The new puppet show with the puppet theater Raphael Mürle, Pforzheim A refreshing mixed drink gives this production its name. And just as the drink hides its hard component, namely the alcohol, in all sorts of exotic, light fruit taste variations, the figures in this piece also appear complex and mysterious, slowly revealing their true character. The bizarre characters meet in a nightclub and form a kaleidoscope of our society today, which is characterized by the strong urge for individualization. Raphael Mürle's fascinating creatures hold the audience with a slight wink to a mirror in which it is only too happy to see again. Directed by this piece was the world-famous puppet player Prof. Albrecht Roser.
© Verein Puppen- und pantomimetheater im August Theater Dresden e.V
Das Festival
Programm
Künstler & Stücke
Träger & Förderer
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Sat November 16
8 pm
PREMIERE: The imp
pantomime grotesquerie by Eric Wilcox.
In Mexico City, a street dog is hit by a car. Before reaching the
Valley of the Animals, dogboy must undergo trials.
The origin of this action - piece is the rediscovery of pan-to-mime
in its original meaning, that ‘everything can be shown’. All is
observed and unobserved. A challenge to ‘the gaze’ and a
reoccupation of the visual plain.
Eric has a forthcoming 180 page autobiography about forty years
making shows across the world „Paid to Move, Misadventures on
the Global Pantomime Front“ soon available as ebook.
Tickets
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Sa. November 23
8 pm
DON JUAN or Satans Masks
Seduced seducer - a grotesque comedy for an actor with his
characters, masks and shadow figures
What invitation! Don Juan offers his services. For two hours, the
world's greatest lover beckons with his seduction skills. The
Spanish nobleman gives his reference: However, the action takes a
slightly different course. First it crackles:Night in Seville, blue light
dances over splendid town houses, sweet melodies accompany
shadows - Don Juan in heavy copulation. The music gets
brighter:Satan enters the stage - a greasy-lascivious pimp type in a
bright red jacket and plenty of gel in his hair. Cynically, he
comments on the hypocritical activity. Satanic and satirical, he lets
us look into the abyss of existence. After all Don Juan is honest
after all - he operates openly, which otherwise only happens behind
closed doors: "I want to break the rule, I want to enjoy it. But my
power goes away, in case a woman resists. "Well, that should be
found:The copulation has an end - Don Juan does not go down as
originally: He succumbs to love. The actor is Satan holding his
characters in his hands. Through this interaction of actors and
characters succeeds a delightful alienation - a grotesque comedy
for all the senses.Puppeteer Grigorij Kästner-Kubsch performs as a
soloist in several parade roles. A real theatrical firework will be
offered to the audience this evening, a game with an actor and his
1.40-meter figures, with the virtuosity of the language, a grotesque
comedy for all the senses.
Tickets
Internationales Puppen- und Pantomime
TheaterFestival Dresden, 19.9.-23.11.2019
a warm invitation
We have invited for you those mime artists
and puppeteers we consider to be the best,
funniest, most poetic or grotesque! We
welcome you to enjoy with us these great
artists. Join our International mime and
puppet theater festival Dresden!
have your magical moment
The PantomimeTheaterFestival Dresden has a 37- year history. Since the Mimenstudio Dresden as the festival's organizer is restructuring this year, the August Theater has taken over hosting the festival this year. Nevertheless, as every year, there will be a grand opening gala staged at Schuelerbuehne. Read more about our program and the artists.Program
Thu. Sept 19 8pm
Schülerbühne im Vitzthum-
Gymnasium Dresden:
opening gala of the International
Mime- & Puppet theater festival
Dresden 2019
Theater con Curore;
Schlitz
Csaba Mehes, Ungarn
Duo Mimikry, Berlin
Nabil Zanabili, Berlin
Katja Grahl, Berlin
Hannah Senft, Berlin
AUGUST Theater DresdenPreußsches
Marionettentheater, Berlin
Duckie L'Orange,
Australien/Berlin
Arne König, Dresden
Sabine Soyk, Berlin/Pirnamore
Fri. Sept. 20. 8pm AUGUST
Theater Dresden:
Pantomix
Pantomime-Theater-Show by
Csaba Mehes, Hungaria
for the whole Familiy
Sat. Oct 12. 8pm
AUGUST
Theater Dresden:
Der Zauber des Pierrot
Varieté with mimes and
Marionettes by Modern Mimes,
Berlin and Fischers Marionetten-
Theater, Frankenberg/Sa.
Fri. Oct 18. 8pm AUGUST Theater
Dresden:
Visual Short Stories
Kuriose Pantomime by Duo
Mimikry, Berlin
Fri. Oct. 25.8pm
AUGUST
Theater Dresden:
Hear my Song
Musical puppet theater for
teenagers and
Adults from 14 years with the
theater con Cuore, Schlitz
Sat. Nov. 09. 8pm
AUGUST
Theater Dresden:
Cocktails
The new puppet theater
performance by puppet theater
Raphael Mürle, Pforzheim
Sat. Nov. 23. 8pm
AUGUST
Theater Dresden:
Premiere: Casanovas ride home
Play with figures after the novel of
the same name
by Arthur Schnitzler
by AUGUST Theater mit Puppen
Dresden
opening gala
The puppeteers Stefan and Virginia Matz from the theater
con Curore guide you through the program with their
characters from the performance "Hear my Song".
Csaba Mehes is from Hungary and the funniest mime we can
just imagine. He was therefore already several times invited
to Dresden as we cannot get enough of him. And laughing is
healthy.
Duo Mimikry from Berlin presents himself to the Dresden
audience first in the gala and later in her brilliant evening
performance "Visual short stories". They belong to a
generation of mimes that is edefining the art form based on
their sound and certified pantomime training in terms of
rhythm, craziness and speed.
Nabil Zanabili performed in 2017 with his play "Father and
Son" at the pantomime festival MIME> BERLIN. With the
Duett Modern Mimes he will perform a second time later
during the festival.
Katja Grahl from Berlin is also part of the duo Modern Mimes
and an artist specializing in galas, dinner shows and city
festivals, who combines mime with dance and artistry.
Hannah Senft from Berlin combines like no other
pantomimin lyric style with absolutely grotesque craziness.
She presents at the gala "I know, black, gray". An absurdly
funny, abstract visual essay about being, appearance and
nonbeing, in the above mentioned "colors".
The Preußsches Marionettentheater from Berlin: Harald
Preuß presents scenes from „Die Zauberflöte“ and
„Entführung aus dem Serail“
Duckie L'Orange is an Australian performance artist based in
Berlin. Using her core artform, figurentheater, she delights
and surprises audiences with comedic and thoughful acts. She
has had a residency collaborating artistically with children at
the Sydney Opera House, worked for many years in
contemporary puppetry with Erth, moderated a steam punk
carnival for the Catalan circus Antigua i Barbuda and has
toured Germany with Puppetry Slam Deutschland. She has
also created large scale outdoor performances with
communities in Indonesia and Freiburg. She is the creator of
her solo program Girls! Girls! Girls! and the UfaFabrik's
International Clown Slam.
Arne König is first and foremost known as mime artist in
Dresden as beeing member of the ensemble of the former
Pantomimestudio Dresden and stagings created in
cooperation with the AUGUST Theater and the joint
performances with Duncan Cameron "URKNALL".
AUGUST Theater Dresden: Fri. September 20 8pm Pantomix An all-evening, cheerful mime performance promising blissful entertainment. The scenes of light humor draw upon the typical root situations of comedy, displaying the tools of the classic Decroux mime technique. During the program the audience becomes a participant and active performer of the plot by way of games and improvisations. Among the funny etudes there might surface some scenes of deeper meaning often characterized by grotesque humor, yet easily understandable for the general public. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Sat. October 12. 8pm Der Zauber des Pierrot Varieté with mimes and Marionettes by Modern Mimes, Berlin and Fischers Marionetten-Theater, Frankenberg/Sa. The magic of imagination. Everything comes out of nowhere and could not be more colorful. A show dedicated to the original spirit of pantomime without stopping on old paths. Stilt walkers, human puppets, awakening mannequins and artistic insoles combine to form an exciting, entertaining show that has always something surprising to offer. In the center stands Pierrot. Pierrot is the outsider, the dreamer with all its facets and ways of playing. He wrestles with the world and tries to reconcile it with his dreams. It creates touching and comic moments that are told with ease. In alternation with short, slapstick-like scenes, a varied program is created for the whole family. Idea, Concept and Direction: Katja Grahl Quite different is the Variety with Fischer's puppets, which understands the history of the traditional puppet stages and conjures up a very close-to-the-people view of the characters on threads. This evening of variety show promises to be unique. Although the stories are very similar, their actors are once made of flesh and blood and on the other hand of wood and cloth, but all can in their own way awaken the Pierrot in us. Fri. October 18 8pm Visual Short Stories mime with Duo Mimikry, Berlin Welcome to the realm of your own imagination! Where are we? In the theater, which does not need a stage set or words, but only the body, joy of playing and the art of transformation, in "Visual Short Stories": What they do not hear, they see and what they do not see, just happens in their head! Duo Mimikry, these are Nicolas Rocher and Elias Elisha, two modern actors who describe the scene completely without words. For many years traveling internationally with programs that understand each language. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Fri. October 25 8pm Hear my Song Musical puppet theater for teens and adults from 14 years with the theater con Cuore, Schlitz A life story about two artists who lose themselves in life and find in music. Hilarious and poetic, witty and touching, exhilarating and disturbing. A roller coaster of emotions as only life makes possible. The street artist Vianne and the abandoned Marc meet in front of Vianne's theater. Marc, who feels like a poor dog, touches Vianne's heart and the two decide from now on together to go their artistic way. They play unnoticed more and more apart until the almost inevitable happens, Vianne leaves Marc. But the bond between them has not been completely cut yet. AUGUST Theater Dresden: Sat. November 09 8pm Cocktails The new puppet show with the puppet theater Raphael Mürle, Pforzheim A refreshing mixed drink gives this production its name. And just as the drink hides its hard component, namely the alcohol, in all sorts of exotic, light fruit taste variations, the figures in this piece also appear complex and mysterious, slowly revealing their true character. The bizarre characters meet in a nightclub and form a kaleidoscope of our society today, which is characterized by the strong urge for individualization. Raphael Mürle's fascinating creatures hold the audience with a slight wink to a mirror in which it is only too happy to see again. Directed by this piece was the world-famous puppet player Prof. Albrecht Roser.
© Puppen und Pantomimetheater im August Theater Dresden e.V.
Das Festival
Programm
Künstler & Stücke
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Sat November 16
8 pm
PREMIERE: The imp
pantomime grotesquerie by Eric Wilcox.
In Mexico City, a street dog is hit by a car. Before reaching the
Valley of the Animals, dogboy must undergo trials.
The origin of this action - piece is the rediscovery of pan-to-mime
in its original meaning, that ‘everything can be shown’. All is
observed and unobserved. A challenge to ‘the gaze’ and a
reoccupation of the visual plain.
Eric has a forthcoming 180 page autobiography about forty years
making shows across the world „Paid to Move, Misadventures on
the Global Pantomime Front“ soon available as ebook.
Tickets
AUGUST Theater Dresden:
Sa. November 23
8 pm
DON JUAN or Satans Masks
Seduced seducer - a grotesque comedy for an actor with his
characters, masks and shadow figures
What invitation! Don Juan offers his services. For two hours, the
world's greatest lover beckons with his seduction skills. The
Spanish nobleman gives his reference: However, the action takes a
slightly different course. First it crackles:Night in Seville, blue light
dances over splendid town houses, sweet melodies accompany
shadows - Don Juan in heavy copulation. The music gets
brighter:Satan enters the stage - a greasy-lascivious pimp type in a
bright red jacket and plenty of gel in his hair. Cynically, he
comments on the hypocritical activity. Satanic and satirical, he lets
us look into the abyss of existence. After all Don Juan is honest
after all - he operates openly, which otherwise only happens behind
closed doors: "I want to break the rule, I want to enjoy it. But my
power goes away, in case a woman resists. "Well, that should be
found:The copulation has an end - Don Juan does not go down as
originally: He succumbs to love. The actor is Satan holding his
characters in his hands. Through this interaction of actors and
characters succeeds a delightful alienation - a grotesque comedy
for all the senses.Puppeteer Grigorij Kästner-Kubsch performs as a
soloist in several parade roles. A real theatrical firework will be
offered to the audience this evening, a game with an actor and his
1.40-meter figures, with the virtuosity of the language, a grotesque
comedy for all the senses.
