La MaMa Kids: Petit Mondrian
Created, directed and with puppets by Edwin Salas Acosta
Interactive Projections by Jay Bristol and UNCA’s New Media Program,
with Professor Victoria Bradbury
Early Childhood consulting by Danny Gomez, LCSW
A 30-minute interactive multilingual (Spanish, French and English) and multimedia performance installation for very young children and their caregivers, which mixes dance-theater with the language of object theater, interactive video animation, live music, and Bunraku style puppetry. Petit Mondrian continues ACA’s successful expansion into Theatre for the Very Young (defined as birth to 5 years old) begun with SHELL, its premiere baby theatre performance mounted as part of the 2022-23 season.
Petit Mondrian isa dance-theatre piece in which an Afro-Latiné boy walking through a museum with his mother becomes obsessed with a red, blue, and yellow painting by the French painter Piet Mondrian. It is with those colors and square shapes that he creates his fantasy world which allows him to escape his fear of a monster featured in the traditional Latin American lullaby, “Sleep Little One.” This 20-minute performance will include 10-minutes of free play at the end in which young people can explore the space and artistic vernaculars of the piece in a self-directed way.
Press Representative: Sam Rudy Media Relations
Asheville Creative Arts is an Asheville-based arts and arts service organization, providing high quality, professional theatre, performance, and arts experiences to Asheville audiences of all ages. Founded in 2013 as an organization serving multigenerational audiences with innovative theatrical work, the Mountain Xpress noted that “ostensibly, ACA produces children’s theater, but the company’s ambitious works appeal to both youths and adults.”
Website: https://ashevillecreativearts.org/shows-events/mainstage-shows/
The 11th La MaMa Puppet Festival Fall 2024 is made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in Washington DC and the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain in New York, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, the Québec Government Office in New York, Puppet Slam Network, Radio Drama Network, The Shubert Foundation. Additional support from Cheryl Henson is gratefully acknowledged.
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La MaMa Kids
La MaMa Kids Online presents kids performances and hands-on workshops online, timed especially for “after school” viewing! La MaMa will continue to use emerging technologies to create a new venue for artistic expression that questions how art can function and how we as a society can survive challenging periods of history.
La MaMa Puppet Festival
The La MaMa Puppet Festival showcases new contemporary puppet theatre by artists from around the world. Curated by Denise Greber, focusing on diversifying the voices, stories, and perspectives shared onstage, with the goal of uplifting marginalized identities within the puppet community.