Hace unos meses recibí la invitación por parte de Anna Cannizzo, curadora del Museo Denison (Denison Museum) de la Universidad Denison en Ohio, Estados Unidos, de colaborar con uno de mis videos expuestos en mi canal de Youtube http://www.youtube.com/teatroesferico. El museo estaba planeando una exposición para exponer su colección de marionetas chinas de teatro de sombras y a la vez hablar sobre la manera de trabajar este tipo de teatro; habían escogido aquél video que tomé en 2007 en el complejo artístico de Dashanzi 798 con la compañía de la familia Wei que venía de la provincia de Shanxi. El video tuvo al parecer algunas problemas de formato y prefirireron utilizar otro que hasta ahora es el más visto de mis videos, "la pelea del rey Mono" grabado en 2007 en Wuzhen, Provincia de Zhejiang.
La exposición tiene el nombre "Between Light and Shadow: Chinese Puppets from the Denison Museum" y fue abierta al público el viernes 23 de enero de 2009. Comparto algunas fotos que Anna Cannizzo muy amablemente me mandó de la exposición y por supuesto los dos videos que se muestran en ella.
El texto del panel dice:
Contemporary Chinese
Shadow Theater
The clip you are viewing is an excerpt from video taken by Gustavo Thomas, a
researcher of theater arts. The video provides two perspectives of a recent shadow
puppet show in Wuzhen xizhan, China. The video is entitled “Monkey King
Fighting” and was recorded on March 28th, 2007. According to Thomas the
“experience was very interesting: old musicians playing traditional instruments,
only one puppeteer (a young woman) with her assistance, and those beautiful
puppets of course. It seemed that day they expected hundreds of children so they
prepared a simple fight-scene between the Monkey King and other mythological
warriors, showing how the Monkey King was able to change himself into anything
he wanted and it was a unique opportunity to see how one shadow puppet
performance is done facing the stage and behind it, to study it or simply to enjoy
this traditional theatrical culture from two different points of view.”
Shadow Theater
The clip you are viewing is an excerpt from video taken by Gustavo Thomas, a
researcher of theater arts. The video provides two perspectives of a recent shadow
puppet show in Wuzhen xizhan, China. The video is entitled “Monkey King
Fighting” and was recorded on March 28th, 2007. According to Thomas the
“experience was very interesting: old musicians playing traditional instruments,
only one puppeteer (a young woman) with her assistance, and those beautiful
puppets of course. It seemed that day they expected hundreds of children so they
prepared a simple fight-scene between the Monkey King and other mythological
warriors, showing how the Monkey King was able to change himself into anything
he wanted and it was a unique opportunity to see how one shadow puppet
performance is done facing the stage and behind it, to study it or simply to enjoy
this traditional theatrical culture from two different points of view.”
Pueden ver en esta ventana de Youtube los dos videos escogidos en la exposición.
* Se puede encontrar información detallada del Museo y la exposición en este link:
* Se puede encontrar información detallada del Museo y la exposición en este link:
Me alegro mucho, Gustavo. La labor que has hecho y haces con tus videos, mostrandonos un mundo tan efimero y desconcocido para muchos, seguramente será valorada con el tiempo. Un saludo, Jesús.
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