PERFORMING DEMENTIA
Workshops and performances for dementia awareness
THE COMPANIES
Around the Glove is a young puppetry company that launched in 2014. We aim to explore and promote the art form of puppetry. We base our work on collaboration, craft-making and unique and playful experiences for ages 0 - 100. We believe in the power of puppets and their incredible ability to engage with audiences, as well as a tool for education and therapy. We research and play using the techniques of Bunraku puppetry, object manipulation, shadows and movement.
Vertebra is a Lecoq based physical theatre company that aims to create international devising theatre and film work. With a taste of the Absurd and the Visual Storytelling we seek to explore the interplay between the dynamics of life, imagination, myths and science creating original and socially inspired writing for stage and screen.
CREATIVE TEAM AND CAST
ABOUT
Almudena Adalia
Director/Puppeteer
Four years working as a lawyer were enough to convince me that puppetry was the way forward.
I retrained in puppetry, acting, direction and cultural management.
I came to England in 2012 to work on The Lion King Musical, UK Tour. Since then I have collaborated with Blind Summit, Secret Cinema and Arcola Theatre as an assistant for the Spanish Golden Age theatre Season in 2013.
Around the glove is my passion project which has so far been supported by Little Angel Theatre.
Mayra Stergiou
Director/Puppeteer
Mayra is a physical theatre performer, Director and Dramatherapist. She studied devising theatre and performance at London International School of Performing Arts (2011). Among her theatre credits is puppeteer at the flying Roast Goose (Yellow Earth and out of chaos theatre company, Pulse festival, 2012), movement director at the hard comedy group (Camden festival, 2013). She is currently artistic director at Vertebra theatre where she directed the devised puppetry performance Dark Matter.
Aurora Adams Puppeteer
She is an actor puppeteer from west London. Earlier this year she appeared as the Virgin Mary in contemporary play about Limbo, Conversations With Mary. She then played Spring in a movement piece in the Macmillan Garden at Hampton Court Flower Show 2014 and most recently puppeteered on the beautiful new puppet opera Njogel with Third Hand at the Tete á Tete Opera festival. Having formerly trained at Little Angel Theatre she is excited to be performing Angeleta and Etelvina at Little Angel’s Hatch festival.
Eirini Dermitzaki
Writer
Eirini is a director and writer. She facilitates drama and art workshops. Sometimes she is doing a little bit acting or comics and sculpture installations. She was born in 1982, in Sitia (Weird Place), Crete. Studied Industrial Design, Acting and Filmmaking. She currently lives in London.
Chantelle Grimaud Puppeteer
I lead and devise creative workshops for children from the ages of 4 to 12 and teenagers, including specially devised pieces for children with autism. I use drama, dance and song, arts and crafts, debates, story-telling and puppetry amongst other things, promoting creativity and team work. I am also an actress, choreographer, script-writer and most recently, Singing Coordinator for #LionKink. I studied at the University of Malta reading a Masters in Innovation and Creativity after having graduated from a BA in English and Theatre Studies. I am currently studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland following an MA in Musical Theatre Performance.
Nicholas Halliwell Puppeteer
Graduated from Rose Bruford in 2012 and has since performed in a selection of countries with his years award winning production "Pages from the Book of..." with their theatre company, Third Arrangement, in Bratislava, Moscow, Edinburgh and Krakow. Back in London his work has consisted of a selection of immersive entertainment including a number of Secret Cinema productions as well as a Bollywood act at Bestival. Most recently he performed and puppeteered as Roger in Sparkle and Dark's 5 Star show, "Killing Roger".
Kelly Frost
Puppet Maker
She trained in theatre design Nottimngham, trent university. She worked as part of puppet making team Little Angel shows "Dogs don't do ballet" "We're going in a bear hunt" and "macbeth". She also was the puppet maker for the play Dark matter by Vertebrae Theatre. She runs puppet workshops for children and adults in schools and community settings. She was puppet workshop facilitator on Spectrum Youth Theatre Little Angel's pilot project.
Luis Alvarez
Lighting Designer
He originates from Spain where he worked as sound and lighting operator for both theatre and live music. In 2010 he was stage manager and sound designer for ‘The Shape of Things’ at Teatro Municipal de Alhendin (Granada). In July 2010 he became Technical Manager for the LOST Theatre in London.
Outside LOST, Luis works as a freelance sound & lighting designer. Presently he is also collaborating with the theatre company "Limb2Limb" , Around the Glove and Vertebra Theatre and the Spanish theatre company "La Palabra Teatro".
Yaiza Varona
Composer
Yaiza Varona is a full time media composer, musicologist and Logic X and 9 Master Pro based in London.
She divides her time between writing music for the media (TV, film, libraries, member of PRS) and some personal projects, among them experimental fussion music (The Malformed Creatures). She is also a featured editor in SCOREcast Online among other professional platforms writing specialised articles on Musicology and Logic X and 9.
In the past, she has been published by West One, CouldB, Synctracks, Felt Music, MIBE or Bedtracks among others, having her TV work most recently being broadcast in TV shows such as HBO´s Emmy nominated Vice, America´s Next Top Model and several shows in Discovery Channel, ITV, BBC2, Sky Living, Channel 4, Channel 5 and more. She has also written for radio, film and advertising as well as demoed for several sample libraries.
Sofia Calmicova
Puppeteer
Theatre is a special place, institution, life and world. Sometimes, I feel that on stage I can breathe as deeply as nowhere. Never mind, studios, which are often a black box, because many colours and light evolve through the actors', directors', technicians', and eventually the audience's presence and work. I have experienced theatre in different environments and cultural circumstances. Starting with my childhood, when my grandmother took me to see children’s plays. It was pretty cold in the theatres in Moldova, but I have never gone without a fan in my hand, subconsciously playing the role of a “grand dame.” Then moving to Germany and acting at JES Theatre in Stuttgart to then living one year in the US and working on performances at The Studio Theatre, in Washington DC. I consider it a gift to go through artistic processes, while having different cultures, mentalities and attitudes around. Therefore I am exhilarated to have practised Balinese Drama, Kecak, Noh Theatre, Indian Dance and Commedia Dell’Arte. The stage gives the opportunity to live, think, feel and act in many different ranges of life and that is what motives and excites me.
Iro Lidorikioti
Social Media Coordinator
Iro Lidorikioti is a London based filmmaker and producer. She holds a BA on Theatre Studies and a Masters Degree in Film & TV Production from University of Bristol.
Her credits include the shadow theatre project Music Impossible (supported by the Arts Council and LSO), where she worked as a Production Assistant. She has also worked as a Production Assistant for the International Street Theatre Festival and the Panorama of European Cinema. She is an active filmmaker and founder of De Lido Productions, where she produces her own films alongside creative digital content and media for a variety of clients. Her latest credits include Yamaha Music UK.
Gregory Emfietzis
Composer
Gregory Emfietzis writes music that seeks to communicate without compromise. Pieces like "DIY 1" embrace staging, lighting, and costume design to draw the drama, psychology and ritualism of performance into the musical experience. Some works, such as the miniature opera "Mirror, mirror on the wall: the crucial moment", seem written as much for actors as for musicians. Others, such as "How to… corrupt someone", are more like sonic theatre. In the shadow theatre piece "Music Impossible", the musicians themselves become puppets. As well as a composer, Gregory is the Artistic Director of the Metapraxis Ensemble (2009) and a co-founder of Underscore Duo (2011).
