Celebration Parade
HANDSPRING PUPPET COMPANY, UKWANDA PUPPETS & DESIGN ART COLLECTIVE
European Premiere
Elephants in sight! The grey giants travel across the Ruhr region.
Celebrate when and where you can! For three days in a row we will be doing this in Essen, Duisburg and Bochum in the Landschaftspark, at Zollverein and in the Westpark, when a pair of elephants cross the Ruhr region together with their young. Instead of real elephants, life-sized artist-built creatures will explore the area. They are presented by the Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa, famous around the world for their fantastic creations (including War Horse and Little Amal), working here in collaboration with the Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective. These are the Celebration Parade’s first stops in Europe and, accompanied by music, it will explore it surroundings and invite school classes, children and families to make their own animal figures in advance at school and at the Festival Centre that they can then bring to life in the parade. A celebration you won’t forget!
Produced by Handspring Puppet Company and Ukwanda Puppets & Design Collective. In Cooperation with the Figurentheater-Kolleg Bochum. Supported by Figurentheaterkolleg e.V. Commissioned by WOMADelaide 2024.
Cast
- Production
- Handspring Puppet Company
- Artistic Direction
- Basil Jones ,
- Adrian Kohler
- Puppetry Director
- Craig Leo
- Puppeteers & Training
- Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective (Siphokazi Mpofu, Luyanda Nogodlwana, Sipho Ngxola)
- Handspring Education Director
- Jill Joubert
- Creative Producers
- Quaternaire (Sarah Ford, Felicitas Willems)
Anreise und Anfahrt
Die Celebration Parade erkundet, begleitet von Musik, die Gelände rund um den Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, das UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein in Essen und den Westpark Bochum. Für Informationen zu Anreise und Anfahrt und über die Barrierefreiheit an den jeweiligen Orten, klicke auf die untenstehenden Kacheln.
