From a traditional Japanese performing art to puppet artistry charming the world

The performance of Wonder of Karakuri Ningyo has been a unique opportunity to discover a traditional puppet art with 300 years of history. Karakuri are traditional puppets in castelets with a very sophisticated mechanism that could make them seem like robots or antique machines, in fact it is said that there are the forerunners of the robots. The way that Mrs. Yasuko Senda explained what Karakuri Ningyo was and the way as Mr. Shobei Tamaya showed the audience how the puppets worked were such interesting that they won the adults and children audience from San Sebastian they were astonished looking at those small creatures with delicate movements. They played 10 times in different places of San Sebastian, from Miramar Palace to a Mall, and in Tolosa; in every place the answer of the audience was a huge applause. Karakuri Ningyo friends were also one of the most interviewed by the media.

Written by Idoya Otegui Martínez 

Date:

28 May to 5 Jun. 2016

Venue:

TOPIC Tolosa Puppet Thatre

Japanese participants:

Shobei Tamaya IX (Karakuri Ningyo Company) , Yasuko Senda

Other participated companies:

Marionetteatern (Sweden), El Espejo Negro (Spain), Lichtbende Theatre (Netherlands), Kakashiza (Japan), ASSITEJ & Speeljtheater (South Africa), La Enananaranja (Spain), Puppets Lab (Bulgaria), La Licorne (France), La Fontana Sombras Animadas (Portugal), Hand Made Theatre (Spain), Unterwaser (Italy), Tol Theatre (Belgium), Laura Heitt (U.S.A.), Wild Theatre (Austria), S.A: Marionetas (Portugal), Creature (France), Titiriteros de Binefar (Spain), Marcelo Lafontana (Brasil), Roberto White (Argentina), Markeliñe (Spain)

Programs:

Related program:

• World Puppet & UNIMA Congress 2016
  Date: 28 May to 5 Jun. 2016
  Venue: San Sebastian, Tolosa