Valtteri Alanen & Jim Manganello: TUBE MAN Demo
Valtteri Alanen & Jim Manganello:
Tube Man -demo
European Festival Fund Residency
Tube Man is an epic history of man told through and among hundreds of inflatable tubes. Two men (what are they doing here? are they lost?) manipulate these tubes – ridiculous and vaguely phallic – with leaf blowers, hoovers, foot pumps and wind machines. The manipulation of the objects becomes subtle terrain for moments of differentiation, competition, collaboration, and violence.
Tube men are those tall, flapping figures that you see outside car dealerships in America. This is a show about contemporary masculinity that is by turns satirical and tender.
This demo is part of a two-week residency in Turku in collaboration with Go Figure! (Norway) and Manipulate Arts (Scotland), funded by the European Festival Fund EFFEA.
Demo sharing
Sat 14 November 11.00 as part of Show & Tell Project pitches Jokistudio, Manilla
30 min
Suitable for 12+
Free admission
Working group
Valtteri Alanen is a formally trained puppeteer and object-theatre maker, an autodidact sound-designer and an experimental musician. Since graduating MA in Directing for Devised and Object Theatre at DAMU, Prague in 2023, he has been focused on intersections of sound-technology, object based performance and experiment- & research oriented performance making.
In Nano Steps Performance series (Trial & Theatre) he developed microscopic puppetry techniques, collaborating with Cornell Uni., AVČR & Aalto Uni.
Jim Manganello is the director of Shotput, a dance-theatre company based in Glasgow, Scotland. Trained as an actor at the movement-based school Ecole Lassaad in Brussels. Since then, he’s worked across forms of dance, film, opera, and theatre. He uses performance as a tool with which to investigate the ‘stickier’ subjects with humour – he likes to view things ‘slant’ through satire and an open heart.
Avainsanat: nykynukketeatteri, residenssi, tip-fest, work-in-progress