Classes are taught by Chicago’s top puppet theater artists, who guide participants from conception, to construction, to a live presentation, all in a fun, communal format. That’s why, due to popular demand, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is expanding its teaching artist roster and tripling its winter line-up of live, online puppetry workshops for actors, artists and theater craftsmen interested in expanding their skill sets and creating new works.Ĭhicago Puppet Festival workshops cover a range of puppetry styles including Shadow, 3D Fabrication, Crankies and Pop Up Books. This winter is the perfect time to stay inside, dive into live, hands-on puppetry workshops and make something extraordinary. The Dyrkacz’s have gradually restored the building to its present charm and today it houses the Main Stage (200), Cabaret Studio with Pregnant Buffalo Lounge (50-150), a cafe and art gallery.Study the Art of Puppetry This Winter With Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival After operating briefly as At the Gallery Theater, it once again became Chopin Theatre. When the Dyrkacz Family purchased the building in 1990, it was vacant except for the small 200 sf Eddie’s Bistro. In 1955 the building’s named changed to Security Federal Savings & Loan but the bank later relocated across the street. The building is located across the Polish Triangle in the area once named Polish Downtown. By 1931 it was again called Chopin Theatre but underwent another name change to Pix Theater. In 1923 it was renamed the Harding and seating was expanded to 987. Originally built as a nickelodeon with 546 seats it was operated by Victor Bardonski. With special support from: Ferdi Foundation/Julie Moller, Jentes Family Foundation, Justine Jentes & Dan Karuna, and the Manaaki FoundationĪccording to the Theater Historical Society of America, the Chopin Theatre building opened March 1918 and was designed by architects Worthmann & Steinbach.
Following its debut, the Chicago Puppet Festival plans to tour the work nationally starting in 2023. The Chicago Puppet Festival and Théâtre de l’Entrouvert are working in close collaboration setting this work on a U.S.-based ensemble, led by Chicago puppeteers Mark Blashford and Ashwaty Chennatt, who are traveling to Ales, France this winter to observe performances of the work in Ales and learn the complexities of performing with ice. Anywhere traces with gentleness and strength a poetic journey, in black and white, of fire and ice, which speaks to us about our bodies, our environment, our fragilities, and our wanderings in the infinite circle of renewal. The fallen Oedipus appears in the form of an ice puppet that gradually melts, then appears as mist and finally disappears in the forest, the place of clairvoyance. Freely inspired by Henry Bauchau’s novel “Oedipus on the Road,” Anywhere evokes the long wandering of Oedipus accompanied by his daughter Antigone. A marionette made of ice will melt your heart in Anywhere, an exquisite, landmark string-marionette work created by the French company Théâtre de l’Entrouvert.
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