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Acme Clown - Horse + Bamboo
ACME
CLOWN COMPANY
"The Acme Clown Company Uses Popular Theatrical Traditions To Amaze, Educate,
And Entertain Audiences Of All Ages"
AKHE
Akhe are an inspiring feature of the renaissance in Russian non-visual
theatre. The group owes as much to the visual arts and cinema as to theatre.
Winner of Russia's Golden Mask Award.
APRICOT THEATRE
Founded in 2003, Apricot is a Welsh company that combines physical and visual theatre, live song, and puppetry.
ARM OF THE SEA
Since 1982, Arm-of-the-Sea has been creating original, live performances
in New York's Hudson Valley and throughout the eastern half of the U.S. The
company makes large-scale, highly visual theater that incorporates Masks,
Puppets and Live Music.
THE ASIAN
COUNCIL FOR PEOPLES CULTURE
A multi-national theatre organisation of actors, musicians, dancers, puppeteers
and folk performers.
BASH STREET
THEATRE COMPANY
A UK-based company using a fusion of live music, physical theatre and circus
skills. Medium-scale indoor/outdoor productions, street shows and walkabout
characters for venues/festivals throughout UK and Europe.
BASIL TWIST
Basil Twist is a leading West Coast US puppeteer, who has an international
reputation for his innovative productions.
BIG
HEADS
A new Manchester (UK) company, who use masks as a
starting point for their street-theatre.
BILLEDSPOR
A Danish music theatre company, with an interesting
website (in Danish).
BONECOS
EM ACAO
A Brazilian puppet
company from Rio de Janeiro.
BREAD
AND PUPPET I
The home page of one of the oldest and most influential
non-profit, self-supporting theatres in the U.S.A.
BREAD
AND PUPPET II
An 'unofficial', but Vermont-based, page about Bread
+ Puppet, which complements the Homepage (above).
THE
CENTRE FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
An organisation based in West Wales, who organise theatre events of 'all
dimensions'. Somethimes programming for festivals, or organising conferences.
They also have a summer school.
CHOL
THEATRE
A neat site from a Kirklees, Yorkshire, UK, based theatre company whose
work is multi-arts, multi-cultural and multi-lingual.
LA COMEDIA
DE CAMPANA
A company from the province of Buenos Aires, in the Argentine Republic.
Founded in 1974, out of The Experimental Theatre Center.
COMEDIANTS
The site commemorating the 25th anniversary of this very influential Catalan
company.
COMMEDIA GILLET
A mask and commedia company from Stockholm, Sweden. Working with Masks,
Jesters and Commedia in productions 'searching for a visual theatre language
that will make you laugh and wonder'. Site in Swedish, English and Spanish.
THE
COMMON PLAYERS
Based in Exeter, Devon, the Common Players were formed in 1989 to create
accessible theatre and tour the village communities of Devon. They also devise
environmental productions for particular situations.
CONTINENTAL
DRIFTS
Not a theatre company but a UK not-for-profit organisation representing
over 70 'outside the mainstream' performance artists, and with information
on many of them.
CRAGG
VALE GAMELAN
A community gamelan based in Yorkshire, who also create their own street
and shadow performances.
CRY OF THE
ROOSTER THEATER
A Seattle based performing arts collective specialising in folklore-based
puppetry and mask work.
DEAF
PUPPET THEATRE HITOMI
An interesting company combining deaf and hearing performers and puppeteers...an
American site for a Japanese company.
DELL'ARTE INTERNATIONAL
A 25 year-old US center for the exploration of the actor-creator. Original
works by the professional touring company plus Dell'Arte International School
of Physical Theatre and Mad River Festival.
DOG & STRING
Formed in 1995, the company is based in Ireland. It was formed by professional visual artists to engage children with the world of the imagination.
DOGTROEP
An international theatre company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
DOO-COT
An innovative puppet and visual theatre company founded in 1991, and based
in Manchester, UK.
DYNAMIC NEW ANIMATION
DNA is an innovative puppet and visual theatre company founded in 1991,
and based in Manchester, UK. It is devoted to the promotion of puppetry as
an art form to people of all ages, races, ethnic origins and abilites through
performance, educational workshops and development work.
EMERGENCY EXIT ARTS
Founded in 1980, EEA are one of the UK's premier producers of celebratory
events. A new site.
FAULTY OPTIC
A British visual theatre/puppetry company, renowned for their macabre humour,
surreal and haunting puppets and narratives..
FORA
DO SERIO
A Brazilian commedia company based in Ribeirão Preto since 1991. Site in
English
FORCED ENTERTAINMENT
An ensemble of artists based in Sheffield UK, producing work in theatre,
installation, digital media, and film.
FORKBEARD FANTASY
A UK theatre and film company formed in the mid 1970s, who specialise in a distinctively comic, visual and surreal theatre which uses film in a highly inventive way.
FRAKTAL
FALUS TEATAR
Split, Croatia. A theatre based on Meyerhold's and Grotowski's physical
and poor theatre.
LA FURA DELS
BAUS
A Spanish company and site. Spectacular, impressive, and large-scale performance
events.
GATEWAY PERFORMANCE
PRODUCTIONS
A US company known for it’s innovative mask theatre productions. Gateway
is a company of mime/dancer /actor/puppeteers under the direction of director/
playwright/ performer /choreographer Sandra Hughes.
GREEN
FOOLS THEATRE SOCIETY
A physical theatre company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company
is dedicated to the production of innovative performances,which are often
performed in unusual settings.
GREEN GINGER
Founded in 1982, Green Ginger are a highly versatile visual/puppet company,
who create powerful street and theatre shows.
HMF
BRAENDENDE KAERLIGHED
A Copenhagen based non-verbal company specialising in street-theatre. A
site in English, French, Danish. CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
HORLA
Formed in early 1999 Horla is a new British production
company concentrating on telling stories through performances with a physical
edge and promoting new talent from design to writing and music.
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