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FLAMINGO BAR - figuren theater tübingen
So much is expressed with so few movements....This silent puppeteer and his team of puppets make us aware of this truth, that nothing lasts. It is like life, a mosaic, full of small poignant events which reveal the various aspects of human predicament, sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. THE HINDU, 05.04.01

While the puppets are up to their amorous antics, Soehnle is visible to the audience. It is testament to the man’s talents that this does not detract the audience from believing that the puppets are indeed driven by their own set of emotions and moving of their own will and accord...Soehnle brilliantly incorporated two skits in which a man sneaks his pet dog to the opera. The whole house roared with laughter at this antic... Bravo!“ NEW STRAITS TIMES, 15.05.99

Frank Soehnle could be called a "universal artist" who has successfully blended all the arts to create one of the most exciting theatre evenings Bangkok has known for some time...“ BANGKOK POST, 22.05.99

The manipulation was precise and impeccable....It was flawless in execution and brilliant in design.
PUPPETRY JOURNAL, USA, 12.99

It should be hard to believe that sticks, rags and strings could elicit so much emotion, laughter and curiosity, but the German puppeteer Frank Soehnle makes it easy to accept.... Yet the puppets are exquisitely suggestive and their movements hint fleetingly...one terrific hour of fun. NEW YORK TIMES, 11.09.98 début

NIGHTVISIONS - figuren theater tübingen
Like Samuel Beckett, who brought a new dimension into modern theatre after the war, Frank Soehnle is doing the same for the world of puppetry. (...) Surrealist, macabre, and even grotesque at times, his homunculus creatures evoke feelings of wonder and repulsion. It is exciting theatre and definitely shouldn’t be missed. BANGKOK POST, 29.06.9

The form of the play was a unique mixture of dance, acting and fine art. It was fascinating, funny and dangerous. (...) The whole show was entertaining, thoroughly explored and choreographed. The sheer intensity of the work, tightly packed with ideas and images, was remarkable.
THE SUN, Malaysia, 10.8.93

CHILDREN OF THE BEAST - figuren theater tübingen
„...two brilliant artists - actor and puppeteer - some of the most skilled puppetry and object manipulation one is likely to see anywhere - "Children of the Beast" is that rare and wonderful thing: an exploration of the darkest forces in human nature that leaves the spectator shaken and stirred but not drained and despairing.“
TOTAL THEATRE MAGAZINE, 02.03 début

english version - click here, please LIQUID SKIN J'en garde encore des images (très belles) dans la tête. C'était subtil, sensible, beau... de la belle ouvrage. EVE CALINGAERT, AUTEUR Les possibilités scientifiques permettant que des métamorphoses créatives tournent en dangereuses manipulations, deviennent le credo d’une cabbale moderne. Une collaboration sans mot et artistiquement fertile. Images très fortes, dignes de la Documenta. SÜDWESTPRESSE Des peintures faites de mouvement et de son d'une beauté inquiétante évoquent le devenir et la disparition… L'installation vidéo en noir et blanc de Suzon Fuks suggère un temps liquéfié, des visages qui se dissolvent. Bobvan, par un collage raffiné, capture le son de notre Temps. STUTTGARTER NACHRICHTEN La présence forte d'Ellison et sa précision s'allient au magnétisme et à la sensibilité de Cunningham. UN MEMBRE DU PUBLIC Tel un explorateur des confins entre deux mondes, James Cunningham s'extirpe d'une membrane pour poursuivre son existence dans un corps déteint, encore imprégné de la mémoire de l'or des rois. STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG
igneous Body in Question \| Thanatonauts \| Autres figuren theater tübingen Flamingo Bar \| Nightvisions \| Children of the Beast BODY IN QUESTION - igneous Travail élégant d’une heure qui intègre mouvements, textes écrits et parlés, animation et une marionnette extraordinairement vivante. Le metteur en scène Suzon Fuks a façonné avec Cunningham un travail à strates multiples, intensément personnel – THE ADVERTISER, Adelaide Une alliance émouvante entre danse, vidéo, partition musicale vibrante et une marionnette grandeur nature, plus vraie que nature à en donner des frissons, un triomphe de l’expression créatrice et de la danse sur toutes nos faiblesses humaines - SUNDAY HERALD SUN, Melbourne Réinventant l’espace chorégraphique,Cunningham se lance en un corps à corps époustouflant avec sa marionnette pour tirer de nouveaux fils artistiques. Un spectacle emblématique de cette deuxième édition de la Biennale Internationale de la Marionnette - TELERAMA, Paris début
THANATONAUTS, Navigators of Death - igneous Exemple étonnant de ce que le spectacle contemporain peut offrir de meilleur. Ce travail démontre clairement la capacité d'Igneous de collaborer avec un large éventail de techniques créatives et d'artistes, et de créer avec succès un langage scénique qui représente une synthèse unique de ceux-ci. Igneous est une compagnie à la pointe de l'Art et du professionnalisme. - REALTIME MAGAZINE, National, Australia Méditatif, humain et, par moments, amusant (...) ça mérite une large audience - THE COURIER-MAIL, Brisbane Autres travaux- igneous “Cheating Death” une fusion nouvelle entre danse et multimédia, époustouflante à tous points de vue, aux mouvements agiles et intéressants inspirés par la danse contemporaine et le Kalaripayat, clouant les spectateurs à leurs fauteuils - THE HINDU, Chennai “The Hands Project” - prodigieusement novateur dans son emploi des différents média et d'un espace multidimensionnel imaginatif - Jennifer Lindsay, Professeur Performance Studies, Université de Sydney “Thanatonauts” (version spectacle vivant, 2001) m'a impressionné par sa profondeur et son intégrité de recherche, aussi bien au niveau du contenu que des différents média utilisés. Deux styles au premier abord disparates (danse post-moderne et art martial du Sud de l'Inde) sont intégrés dans un langage kinesthésique contemporain et soutenu - Cheryl Stock,Professeur et Directrice du département de danse, Queensland University of Technology début

FLAMINGO BAR - figuren theater tübingen So much is expressed with so few movements....This silent puppeteer and his team of puppets make us aware of this truth, that nothing lasts. It is like life, a mosaic, full of small poignant events which reveal the various aspects of human predicament, sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. THE HINDU, 05.04.01 While the puppets are up to their amorous antics, Soehnle is visible to the audience. It is testament to the man’s talents that this does not detract the audience from believing that the puppets are indeed driven by their own set of emotions and moving of their own will and accord...Soehnle brilliantly incorporated two skits in which a man sneaks his pet dog to the opera. The whole house roared with laughter at this antic... Bravo!“ NEW STRAITS TIMES, 15.05.99 Frank Soehnle could be called a "universal artist" who has successfully blended all the arts to create one of the most exciting theatre evenings Bangkok has known for some time...“ BANGKOK POST, 22.05.99 The manipulation was precise and impeccable....It was flawless in execution and brilliant in design. PUPPETRY JOURNAL, USA, 12.99 It should be hard to believe that sticks, rags and strings could elicit so much emotion, laughter and curiosity, but the German puppeteer Frank Soehnle makes it easy to accept.... Yet the puppets are exquisitely suggestive and their movements hint fleetingly...one terrific hour of fun. NEW YORK TIMES, 11.09.98 début NIGHTVISIONS - figuren theater tübingen Like Samuel Beckett, who brought a new dimension into modern theatre after the war, Frank Soehnle is doing the same for the world of puppetry. (...) Surrealist, macabre, and even grotesque at times, his homunculus creatures evoke feelings of wonder and repulsion. It is exciting theatre and definitely shouldn’t be missed. BANGKOK POST, 29.06.9 The form of the play was a unique mixture of dance, acting and fine art. It was fascinating, funny and dangerous. (...) The whole show was entertaining, thoroughly explored and choreographed. The sheer intensity of the work, tightly packed with ideas and images, was remarkable. THE SUN, Malaysia, 10.8.93 CHILDREN OF THE BEAST - figuren theater tübingen „...two brilliant artists - actor and puppeteer - some of the most skilled puppetry and object manipulation one is likely to see anywhere - "Children of the Beast" is that rare and wonderful thing: an exploration of the darkest forces in human nature that leaves the spectator shaken and stirred but not drained and despairing.“ TOTAL THEATRE MAGAZINE, 02.03 début