‘KuklArt’ Magazine
Issue 12/2018
Dear reader,
It’s hard to believe, but you already have the twelfth issue of KuklArt in your hands! I just don’t think what’s coming next year… Namely: 13th issue!
It is greedy our wish with the irresistible Mihail Baykov not to miss anything from the aroma of the process, no more important show, nothing mainly from the general tone of the forums held in our country during the year, to meet you in calm, nervous from rushing and searching for indispensable sensations, conversations with personalities who determined and determine the level of Bulgarian puppetry, to raise again and again the issue of training puppeteers, our desire through foreign experience to encourage the search for puppet theatre in our country, to save them – if at all possible, but also useful – walking on dead end paths, etc. That is why the number swells out of control, and the annual uncertainty that there will be another issue does not give us the heart to give up a group of texts or to postpone their publication for a whole year…
At the same time, we can’t help but rejoice that the editorial office receives more and more diverse texts, that there are – oh, a miracle! – there are already authors who are looking for us themselves… At least in quantitative terms, one of the main goals of KuklArt – to activate the writing of puppetry and to create its own circle of authors, is about to be realized. It is time to look for the quality of writing that our puppet theatre deserves.
Nikola Vandov
Editor-in-chief
Articles Contents
Contents
Dear Reader… – Nikola Vandov
Theory, history, experience, polemics
Puppet theatre must continue to exist as a puppet theater and must not forget the puppet – its basic mean of expression – Nataliya Aleksieva talks to the director of Sliven Puppet Theater Efimiya Pavlova
A resistant tradition
International anniversary creative laboratory and workshop from Stara Zagora – Svetlomira Stoyanova
A playwright – wanted or not? – Venera Nechkova-Fingarova
Therapeutic effect of the fairytale in terms of puppet therapy – Mihaela Tyuleva, PhD
Samurais and marionettes – Mihail Baykov talks to the creators of ‘The samurai’s daughter’
‘Pocket enchantments’ – Manuela Sarkisyan presents her one man show
For a multidisciplinary education – Margareta Niculescu
We learned a lot thanks to the debates about the place of an art and its teaching – Svetlomira Stoyanova talks to the founder of ‘Daru Tempo’ Company
Education of the untypical artistic personality – goal of the professional training in puppet direction and acting – Yulia Ognyanova
Profiles
Be yourself and aspire to do what you want most – Dilyan Tsenov talks to the actress Slava Racheva
Only children are able to feel empathy – Nikola Vandov and Mihail Baykov talk to the writer Rada Moskova
I like to have fun and nothing else attracts me – Nikola Vandov and Mihail Baykov talk to the director Leonard Capon
Festivals and Forums
Fifth international art festival ‘The magic of the wind’, Sliven
Festival’s Passport
The power to overcome fear – Mihail Tazev
The Fillyjonk – Boryana Georgieva talks to the director Petar Todorov
Festival bonuses – Nikola Vandov
Nineteenth International Festival of Children’s Performances ‘The Magic Curtain’, Targovishte
Festival’s Passport
‘The magic curtain’ for the 19th time
How about you – can you forgive? – Mihail Tazev
Fifth International Puppet Open-Air Festival ‘Puppetry Days’, Burgas
Festival’s Passport
This festival was intended to be a gift – a gift for our little spectators… – Gergana Traykova talks to Hristina Arsenova – director of Puppet Theatre Burgas
Twenty-third International Puppet Theatre Festival ‘Three Are Too Many, Two – Not Enough’, Plovdiv
Festival’s Passport
The need of illusions is alive – Katerina Georgieva
A cyber white tale – digital reality following Valeri Petrov – Svetlomira Stoyanova
Dreamed music – Boryana Georgieva talks to Andrey Zaporojski (stage director of ‘A little night music’)
‘The piece’ – in search of the right place – Gabriela Evstatieva
Everybody has his own struggle, leaving, return, loss, finding… – Gergana Traykova talks to Veselin Boydev, Alexandra Eneva and Ivaylo Enev about ‘The piece’
Tenth International Festival for Street and Puppet Theatre ‘Puppet Fair’, Sofia
Festival’s Passport
Tenth Puppet Fair: To be or not to be? – Nataliya Aleksieva
90 years with Architect Ivan Tsonev – Gabriela Evstatieva
A heart, a little wit and a drop of courage – Mihail Tazev
‘Giraffe’: the fascinating puppet poetry – Nataliya Aleksieva
Neville Trenter – the power of the puppet – Svetlomira Stoyanova
The eternal ‘Visual Poems’ of Jordi Bertran – Svetlomira Stoyanova
‘Monsters’ – the fears and the monsters (in us) – Svetlomira Stoyanova
‘The story of the seagull and the gang of tomcats’ – from Bulgaria to Japan and vice versa – Nataliya Aleksieva
Katya’s love – Tamiko Onagi
Seventh International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth’s Audience ‘Adults forbidden’, Smolyan
Festival’s Passport
Conversations from Smolyan – Boryana Georgieva talks to the participants in the festival
In the Happy Mountain: with quiet stubbornness and deep conviction – Nikola Vandov
Reviews
A chronologist between Vidin and Nice – far away from time – Katerina Georgieva
The small theater at the end of the world – Opus II. Nice is Vidin – Katerina Georgieva
‘Colorful cock’: the newest puppet art festival in Bulgaria – Elena Angelova
‘1984’ – Svetlomira Stoyanova
‘Monsters’ by Duda Paiva – Albena Tagareva
‘The land of Oz’ – Zornitsa Kamenova
A meeting with the extraordinary girl – Gabriela Evstatieva
‘Alice in Wonderland’: the children’s imagination that we never lose in complete – Nataliya Aleksieva
10 puppet fairs – Mihail Baykov
‘The Samurai’s Daughter’ – a Japanese puppet tradition in Bulgaria – Svetlomira Stoyanova
90 years since the birth of architect Ivan Tsonev – Mihail Baykov
‘Turandot’ – the Chinese princess in the puppet world – Svetlomira Stoyanova
Treasure Island – between classics and virtual reality – Mihail Baykov
‘A book which is worth its object’ – Nikola Vandov
Information
History of the performances in 2018
Management Board of Association Of Puppet Theatres ‘AKT-UNIMA, Bulgaria’
New Puppet and Drama-Puppet Theatre Directors
Nominations and awards ‘Ikar’ of the Union of Bulgarian Actors (UBA) for the year 2018
The winner of the ‘Sivina Award’ for the year 2018 is Lyubomir Genchev
In memoriam
Margareta Niculescu