Details

In this solo work Duda Paiva used foam puppets to draw on his childhood, during which he suffered an illness that blistered his body and left him temporarily blind. His surreal path to healing involved both shamanic and western medicine. BLIND transforms this experience into a metaphor about disability, rejection and resolution. It creates an in-time theatrical tapestry of dance, puppetry adaptations of Yoruba songs from a unique Afro-Brazilian subculture, and the driving forces of sound and light.

Creatives/Company

Company(s): Duda Paiva Company, Black Hole Theatre (Aus)
Producer(s): Nordland Visual Theatre NO, Festival Mondial des Theatres de Mrionnettes FR, Korzo NL
Director: Nancy Black
Choreographer: Duda Paiva
Music: Wilco Alkema
Sound: Wilco Alkema
Lighting: Mark Verhoef
Design(s): Evandro Serodio (puppets), Duda Paiva (puppets)
Other(s): Patrick Oliveira (Toruba Teacher / Theatre Anthropologist), Daniel Patijn (decor realisation), Marijana Mikolcic (production)
Dramaturg: Nienke Rooijakkers (dramaturgical advice
Costume(s): Machtelt Halewijn (+ decor), Atty Kingma (Duda Paiva's costume)