La MaMa Puppet Festival - La MaMa Kids: Petit Mondrian

Created, directed and with puppets by Edwin Salas Acosta
Interactive Projections by Jay Bristol and UNCA’s New Media Program, with Professor Victoria Bradbury
Early Childhood consulting by Danny Gomez, LCSW

A 30-minute interactive multilingual (Spanish, French and English) and multimedia performance installation for very young children and their caregivers, which mixes dance-theater with the language of object theater, interactive video animation, live music, and Bunraku style puppetry.  Petit Mondrian continues ACA’s successful expansion into Theatre for the Very Young (defined as birth to 5 years old) begun with SHELL, its premiere baby theatre performance mounted as part of the 2022-23 season.

Petit Mondrian isa dance-theatre piece in which an Afro-Latiné boy walking through a museum with his mother becomes obsessed with a red, blue, and yellow painting by the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. It is with those colors and square shapes that he creates his fantasy world which allows him to escape his fear of a monster featured in the traditional Latin American lullaby, “Sleep Little One.” This 20-minute performance will include 10-minutes of free play at the end in which young people can explore the space and artistic vernaculars of the piece in a self-directed way.

Tickets: $15

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