CABARET VOLTAIRE

an original creation by S.A.Marionetes - Theater & Puppets

ABSOLUTE PREMIERE

June 21 • 9:30 PM • Alcobaça Cinema Theater

 

It's World War I. Artists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings take refuge in Switzerland, a neutral country in the conflict. In Zurich, they open a café they call the Cabaret Voltaire. Artists from all over the world fleeing the war arrive here.

The Cabaret Voltaire, a safe space for freedom and artistic creation, is the meeting point for avant-garde art of the first half of the 20th century and the place that gave rise to the DADA movement, one of the most important movements in the history of contemporary art. It was through Dadaism that the puppet was first used as an intellectual artistic object, notably by several women artists such as Anna Hoch and Sophie Tauber. This is also one of the fundamental reasons that led S.A.Marionetas to pay tribute to the DADA movement.

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By recreating the legendary Zurich café as a safe haven for creative effervescence, S.A.Marionetas aims to fundamentally speak of freedom, innovation, and salvation through art, especially in such unstable times as we live in today.

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Artist Profile

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Original | José Manuel Valbom Gil, Natacha Costa Pereira, Sofia Olivença Vinagre

​Staging and Manipulation | José Manuel Valbom Gil, Natacha Costa Pereira, Sofia Olivença Vinagre

Puppet Construction | Natacha Costa Pereira

Stage Structures and Props | José Manuel Valbom Gil, Natacha Costa Pereira, and Sofia Olivença Vinagre

Sound Design and Bruitage | Natacha Costa Pereira

Puppet Costumes and Costume Design | Sofia Olivença Vinagre

Seamstress | Olinda Lopes

Light and Sound Operation | Rodrigo Moreira

Photographic Record | Rodrigo Moreira

Video Record | Olho de Boi and Joana Borges

Research | Natacha Costa Pereira

Production | Beatriz Pires, S.A.Marionetas – Theater & Puppets

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Age 12 and older

Duration | 45 minutes

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- Project supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sports / Directorate-General for the Arts, under the Project Support - Creation and Publishing modality (2023), and by the Municipality of Alcobaça

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