Museu da Marioneta

Schedule: 6 May – 9pm and 10.30pm
For audiences over: For all agesTime: Aprox. 20 min.Technique: Robotics and Puppets 
Electric Circus is a collaboration between inventor Fred Abels & puppeteer Mirjam Langemeijer. They combine authentic puppetry with modern robot techniques. Electric Circus creates memorable and unconventional robots and uses these in their street performances.They have created a little circus monkey that looks very alive. It jumps and screams, rides a bike, makes a musical performance, does his tricks…. But above all this little monkey is able to touch young and old right in the heart!The robots look truly lifelike and are moved by remote control: a technique borrowed from the film-industry known as “animatronics”, now mostly replaced by computer-animation. The use of animatronics in theatre and street performances is not done very often and produces a surprising effect.The player/operator and the robot mix with the unsuspecting crowd, from there – mostly unnoticed – the robot is directed using the remote control. This allows the robot to immediately respond to the reactions of the audience.
Authors, construction and manipulation: Mirjam Langemeijer and Fred Abels
Ciclo: FIMFA LX10 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms