With Patricia O'Donovan 5 weekly sessions of 2 and a half hours each. Begins .......( no details yet). From 16.00 hrs until 18.30pm Where: Nisim Behar 3, Nachlaot, Jerusalem (my home). Number of participants: 3-6 Price: ( no details yet) You bring your own materials (list below) Throughout different artistic and theatrical traditions, artists have used papercutting in very different ways: to cut a figure out of its background, to cut into the paper so that positive and negati

a) For The Vulture/ Der Geier. Photos Ilya Kreines. b) from his letters to Milena and his father

The Vulture (העיט), a 20-minute highly gestural storytelling performance with a sequence of changing images: papercuts illuminated from the back, created for Kafka’s short story Der Geier.

Training workshop for actors, illustrators, storytellers and public speakers. Workshop in preparation, ready by mid 2027. Brain neurons. Drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934)

Detail of papercut for Kleist's story 'The Earthquake in Chile'. 1 — "The Vulture" and new work I am currently performing The Vulture, based on Kafka’s Der Geier (see Performing Now), a live, highly gestural storytelling performance that brings together elements of oral storytelling, graphic novels/comics, and full-scene shadow puppetry. Voice and body movement interact with a sequence of paper-cut images that, illuminated from behind, are manually replaced as the story progr

Group workshops or individual lessons in the techniques of papercutting. Its relationship to folklore, shadow theater, 2D graphic narratives, film and more.

For actors, storytellers, public speakers. Original and unique exercises to learn how and what the hands can express as we speak.

In Kamishibai, a traditional form of storytelling which originated in Japan, a series of pictures contained in a wooden theater-like box, are revealed one after another as the story progresses. It is not just about creating pictures for the story, but about exploring the many different ways the words and body language of the storyteller interact with the changing pictures. We will use this medium to explore different ways words and images interact with each other, how to de

A Jerusalem based company dedicated to Puppet Theater and Storytelling Performances, directed by Patricia O'Donovan

Papercuts inspired on Kafka's letter to Milena Kafka wrote to Milena: Liebe ist, daß du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle, which has been translated into English as “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love,” and into Spanish as “Tú eres el cuchillo que doy vuelta dentro de mí, eso es amor.” I am not convinced that Kafka would have recognized his meaning in either of these translations. Suspecting that the verb wühle carries ass

I can teach you step by step how you design and build your shadow puppets as well as train you to work with them using techniques that fit the needs of your show. Below: puppets I created for different shows. My work in Shadow Theater began in the early 70's, when I was part of the group Transparencias dedicated to Shadow Theater under the direction of Beppi Newberry, at the music academy "Collegium Musicum" in Buenos Aires, Argentina (see here)

For my show " On the Theater of the Marionettes" based on Kleist's text. White molding clay.

Playing with the Train Theater of Jerusalem (תאטרון הקרון).A puppet show about the life and invention of Louis Braille.

For my show Nekudat Or, based on the life of Louis Braille

Performed in France as Passé Composé An adult storyteller on stage recounts her childhood memories, when she was 7 years old in Holland, and the Germans invaded. The performer is both the storyteller and the actress that plays the child protagonist. Questions about identity, friendship, loyalty in times of distress and survival from the point of view of an innocent 7 year old child, make the issues more poignant. Credits: Concept, Direction, Performance, Design, Text and

"AMANILI SINGS"( אמנילי שרה) Credits: Akkadian text: Anonymous. Mesopotamia, about 2500 BC. Concept, Direction, Text, Design, Scenery, Shadow Puppets and Performance : Patricia O'Donovan Music written and played live by: Yarden Erez. The lullaby is sung in Hebrew and Akkadian at the end of the show. Stage construction, puppet rods and body-lamp: Mario Keizman. On stage: Patricia O'Donovan and Yarden Erez Co- Production of Ambulo Company and the Train Theater of Jerusalem, 2

" And all of those who have written down their stories, the greatest are those whose writings differs the least from the speech of the many anonymous storytellers" Walter Benjamin in The Storyteller For storytellers, puppeteers, visual theater performers, writers of literature, theater or film, teachers and lecturers. Individual frontal lessons or group workshops. Zoom is also a possibility. At begginer ( no previous experience ) or advanced levels. Switching from the narrato

Inspired in Kleist's 1810 essay of same name. (in construction) Credits Direction, Text, Design and Performance: Patricia O'Donovan Stage and Prop Construction: Mario Keizman Music: Ittay Binnun Consultant Dramaturgist: Yael Citron Production: AMBULO Company, with the assistance of the Pays Lottery Agency for Arts and Culture. Pandora Collective. Train Theater of Jerusalem, November 2016. Opening: Festival of the Arts at the Kahn Theater, March 2017

The History and Drama of Bringing Objects Close Together (in construction) Cabinets of Curiosities Symbolic Objects From the Book of Nature to the Theater of the World Collections as Art or Store Regarding, Ogling and Peeping Words and Things The Drama of Objects and Object Theater When the Image becomes Object When Objects Tell a Story When You Tell a Story with Objects Theaters with Boxes in Different Cultures