In August 2018 the City Council of Amsterdam honoured 125 year Dutch traditional Jan Klaassen puppetry at Damsquare, with a special anniversary medal. Punch & Judy from Britain by Professor Robert Styles and Pulcinella from Naples by Bruno Leone came over to Amsterdam for celebrating the big party. Puppeteer Egon Adel is continuing the tradition […]
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Droomtheater in collaboration with NVP-UNIMA Netherlands will organize a Masterclass Modern Shadow Theater from 4 – 8 June 2018 in Rotterdam. The Masterclass professor is Italian modern shadow theater player and director Fabrizio Montecchi from Teatro Gioco Vita from Piacenza. Modern shadow theater is characterized by the release of the almost fixed connection between screen, […]
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As you know, on a proposal of the UNIMA National Centre of her country, Hetty Paërl was appointed UNIMA Honorary Member by the Executive Committee, honour which was confirmed by the Congress, in last June in Tolosa. She sent us a thank you letter for this honour. Read the letter
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Created in 1955, NVP-UNIMA Netherlands is celebrating its 60th Anniversary, with an international festival, an agenda with pictures of its members and the publication of a book about their education of puppeteers. Also, they welcomed a new councillor, Martine van Ditzhuyzen. As she wrote a wonderfull motivation letter, UNIMA Netherlands is very glad to share […]
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Dutch Puppeteer Feike Boschma died at the age of 93, November the 13th 2014 after a brief illness. Boschma developed his work in World War II and debuted in 1947 at the cabaret shows of Wim Sonneveld. In the following decades he worked with artists from various disciplines such as dance, mime and visual arts. […]
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