{"id":447,"date":"2013-10-14T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/closetoyoufestival.com\/history\/?p=447"},"modified":"2023-10-31T18:48:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:48:45","slug":"2013-close-to-you-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/closetoyoufestival.com\/history\/en\/2013-close-to-you-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 \u201cClose to You\u201d Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Small scale, small audience and intimate space-- the three major elements of the Close To You Puppet Festival bring their audience a special experience of connecting life and theater. ~ Curator SHIH Pei-yu
Nowadays, most of the performing art productions focus on \u201cgreat scale\u201d, \u201cbig space\u201d and \u201clarge audiences\u201d. On the contrary, the Close To You Puppet Festival highlights \u201csmall scale\u201d and \u201cintimacy\u201d in order to offer an alternative to the art environment of the creative process as well as the production process.
In the festival, artists manipulate small objects \/puppets in a small non-traditional performing space in order to provide a small audience a closer look at the details of the performance.
Instead of sitting, we invite the audience to join a walking tour between shows so they can have a chance to reflect the show they just saw and look at the city from a different point of view.<\/p>

Hopefully, through the show-viewing and walking tour design we are able to inspire the theater makers to think outside the box.
We also invite puppet masters from around the world to present their work. We would like to create a dialog of puppetry between their work and the new works that the local artists have created for the festival.<\/p>

Our goal is to provide an experimental platform to promote the diversity of puppetry. We execute the concept at the familiar places in our daily life instead of in the theater.
The core value of the festival is to do its best on every single detail. All those \u201csmall\u201d things are \u201cbig\u201d things in our mind.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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