The oldest Spanish puppeteer, Sebastià Vergés i Cadena, died on Sunday 25th May 2014, at the age of 85, after a long illness. Master of many puppeteers, born in Barcelona in 1929, Sebastià Vergés learned the work with his father. His father founded a puppet company, which is managed now by his son, at the beginning of the 20th century. […]
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It is with great sadness that we have learned the death of Francis Houtteman, founder of Créa-Théâtre in Tournay (Belgium). This extremely dynamic man was not afraid of getting involved in every way possible in order to incite encounters and questions at all artictic, political and social levels. His various creations have succeeded to stimulate and touch thousand of spectators […]
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The UNIMA Council opened on 22 April 2014 in the Congress Center of Plaza America with the following agenda: presentation of projects, reports of commissions and preparation of 22th Congress. On April 24, the new website was officially presented. UNIMA gathers its councillors for the first time in Latin America. The president of UNIMA, Dadi Pudemjee thanked for the […]
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The famous indonesian puppeteer Asep Sunandar Sunarya passed away on 31 March 2014. Indonesian Dalang, he came in Charleville-Mézières (France), at Margareta Niculescu’s invitation (1995), for a workshop, “Puppet Wayang Golek” organized for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette. UNIMA joins à ESNAM to express its condolences to the family.
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