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Blind

(This is a past event and is no longer running)

PUPPETRY / DANCE

“It’s as delightful as it is heart breaking and too beautiful to define.” ★★★★
– Sydney Morning Herald

An inspiring, hallucinatory solo work by Duda Paiva, exploring a childhood illness which left him temporarily blind, told through hypnotic puppetry and movement.

BLIND transforms his experience with hand-made puppets and stunning visual landscapes to detail his surreal path to healing. A powerful story of disability, rejection and resolution touched by a delightful sense of humour.

Originally from Brazil, Duda Paiva, along with his dance partners – carved from flexible foam – create unique, elusive, magical, sometimes painful worlds that discuss taboo subjects in a light-hearted way.

By
Duda Paiva Company

Concept
Duda Paiva, Nancy Black

Direction
Nancy Black

Choreography & Performer
Duda Paiva

Performances:

Wed 8 – Sat 11 March
7:30pm

Post-Show Talk, Thu 9 March
Join us for a Q&A with the cast

Auditorium

Tickets:

£20, £25 standard

Concessions 20% off
Available on selected days for those in Full-time education, Blue Light card holders and people in receipt of benefits

(£40 offer for BAND A tickets to both TITANS and BLIND when booked together)

Running Time:

Approximately 75 mins – No Interval

Age Guidance:

14 +

Content Warnings:

Strobe Lighting, Immersive Performance

Performances:

Wed 8 – Sat 11 March
7:30pm

Post-Show Talk, Thu 9 March
Join us for a Q&A with the cast

Auditorium

Tickets:

£20, £25 standard

Concessions 20% off
Available on selected days for those in Full-time education, Blue Light card holders and people in receipt of benefits

(£40 offer for BAND A tickets to both TITANS and BLIND when booked together)

Running Time:

Approximately 75 mins – No Interval

Age Guidance:

14 +

Content Warnings:

Strobe Lighting, Immersive Performance

Additional Information

BLIND is a collaboration of Duda Paiva Company with Black Hole Theatre AUS
Co produced with Nordland Visual Theatre NO, Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes FR, Korzo NL – Co financed by the Performing Arts Fund NL
With thanks to Hans C. Boer, Domokos Kovacs

CREATIVES

Music/Sound Design
Wilco Alkema

Lighting Design
Mark Verhoef

Puppets
Evandro Serodio, Duda Paiva

Yoruba Teacher / Theatre Anthropologist
Patrick Oliveira

Dramaturgical Advice
Nienke Rooijakkers

Costumes & Decor
Machtelt Halewijn

Duda Paiva’s Costume
Atty Kingma

Decor Realisation
Daniel Patijn

Production
Marijana Mikolcic

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