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Without words KĀHKĀKIW is a contemporary dance piece with characters drawn from Cree stories. The Raven (kāhkākiw) character from the title avoids the mantle of colonial epistemological frameworks with his deft, evasive dance. Materials for the bunraku-inspired puppets include soil and sawdust from the streets of Montréal, sand from local parks, wood from dead trees, […]

Without words The puppet speaks to what it means to be human. It explores its ability to say “I’m here”, and be surprised by this fact. Milieu is a stopover during which a puppet confronts the climatic variations of its environment. Like Samuel Beckett’s short story, The Lost Ones, Milieu portrays a situation that is […]

Inspired by European fables and legends, Les saisons du poulain (“The seasons of the foal”) tells the story of a small horse on the eve of his first spring as he leaves his homestead and heads out to discover the world. As his life is shaped by each passing season, the little foal comes to […]

Without words In Contes zen du potager, the heroes are monks or samurai warriors. Each one’s body is a vegetable or a fruit that reveals its personality. The puppeteers’ moves are as steady and minimalist as a calligrapher’s stroke or a Japanese cook’s slice, as ritualistic as the art of serving tea, and as amusing […]

A piece about belonging, memory and inter-generational dialogue In French In 2015, the circus career of Shoshana Bass ends abruptly after an unimaginable fall from a trapeze. While she struggled with questions of identity in the face of physical inability, her father, Eric Bass, decided to teach her Autumn Portraits, his signature puppet vignette performance. […]

This simple and warm story illustrates the relationship between Humans and Nature through the friendship between a young boy and tree. We first see the man as a boy, then as an adult, and finally as an old man, who keeps coming back to the tree to ask for more. Even stripped of everything – […]

She is a puppeteer. He is a musician. Life and death are played out in their nightclub as an old woman faces Death. The show begins with her final moments. Her time has come, and in order to postpone the inevitable, she presents a quick overview of her existence. The many transformations that make up […]

Combining music and science, Mr. Z turns his piano into a machine in a bid to connect with Beethoven. But a mouse hiding in the instrument derails the experiment, taking Mr. Z on a fantastic journey on “the wings of music”. Fleeing from Death on his “mobile piano”, he crashes into a planet where two […]

WALKABOUT EXHIBITION From February 11 to March 10, 2019 In shop windows on Bernard West and Van Horne Avenues, as well as at the Bibliothèque Robert-Bourassa and the Maison internationale des arts de la marionnette (MIAM) Realta • Lescurier • Julie et Benjamin • Le Serpolet • Ongles GG  • Coiffure Alicia • Mince Alors • […]

Thursday, March 8, from 9 a.m. to noon Salon Thalia – Appartements Trylon  Pan-Canadian meeting of artists and artisans, members of UNIMA-Canada, the Canadian centre of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. Founded in 1929, UNIMA is dedicated to the promotion and recognition of puppetry around the world. www.unimacanada.com www.unima.org