Funicular Project: Chinese Glove Puppets Workshop with Yeung Fai
São Luiz Teatro Municipal
8 to 10 December 2023
Directed by: Yeung Faï (CH-FR)
8 to 10 December 2023 (Friday to Sunday)
São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala Bernardo Sassetti
The registrations are open!
A unique opportunity to discover this manipulation technique and learn with the master Yeung Faï, the last member of a puppeteer dynasty (five generations and several centuries of practice).
Yeung Faï is unrelenting in the pursuit of his art and has become a celebrated and unchallenged master of Chinese glove puppets. This puppet allows very elaborate acrobatic movements, including all kinds of pirouettes, also recalling the proximity, in China, between the performing arts and martial arts. The Chinese glove puppetry can be comparable to using a circus apparatus and involves intense physical effort.
Thanks to his virtuosity and technical mastery, Yeung Faï is able to express most accurately the state of mind, temper and feelings of the characters he manipulates. His puppets become real acrobats, whose combats are punctuated by leaps, somersaults and other impressive feats.
A practical workshop on the initiation of the technical manipulation of Chinese glove puppets from traditional and contemporary perspectives. During this training, puppets brought by the master Yeung Faï will be used.
For: Puppeteers, actors, dancers, circus artists, directors, visual artists, performing and visual arts students
> More info here <
Photography: Estelle Valente/Teatro São Luiz
Directed by: Yeung Faï (CH-FR)
8 to 10 December 2023 (Friday to Sunday)
São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala Bernardo Sassetti
The registrations are open!
A unique opportunity to discover this manipulation technique and learn with the master Yeung Faï, the last member of a puppeteer dynasty (five generations and several centuries of practice).
Yeung Faï is unrelenting in the pursuit of his art and has become a celebrated and unchallenged master of Chinese glove puppets. This puppet allows very elaborate acrobatic movements, including all kinds of pirouettes, also recalling the proximity, in China, between the performing arts and martial arts. The Chinese glove puppetry can be comparable to using a circus apparatus and involves intense physical effort.
Thanks to his virtuosity and technical mastery, Yeung Faï is able to express most accurately the state of mind, temper and feelings of the characters he manipulates. His puppets become real acrobats, whose combats are punctuated by leaps, somersaults and other impressive feats.
A practical workshop on the initiation of the technical manipulation of Chinese glove puppets from traditional and contemporary perspectives. During this training, puppets brought by the master Yeung Faï will be used.
For: Puppeteers, actors, dancers, circus artists, directors, visual artists, performing and visual arts students
> More info here <
Photography: Estelle Valente/Teatro São Luiz