Handspring Puppet Company Talk: Puppetry And Empathy

FREE TALK & DEMONSTRATION

Alongside the highly anticipated opening of William Kentridge and Handspring Puppet Company‘s Faustus In Africa!, The Coronet Theatre is thrilled to present an exclusive free talk with senior member of Handspring Puppet Company, Enrico Dau Yang Wey.

Discover how puppetry can open doors to deeper human connection. This engaging talk explores the power of puppetry move hearts and minds, building empathy and understanding.

Suitable for: Anyone with an interest in puppetry and theatre.

Enrico Dau Yang Wey

Enrico Dau Yang Wey is from Taiwan. They are a senior member of Handspring Puppet Company (SA) as seen in William Kentridge’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and in War Horse on Broadway. They are the Puppetry Director and Associate Artistic Director for The Walk/Little Amal.

For many years under their umbrella project, [fertile fields], Enrico has been persistently unpicking the tightly woven fibers of sound, landscape, and memory through performance and mnemonic practice.

Compelled by the concrete nature of monuments and the (hi)stories they propose to carry, [fertile fields] began as a live attempt to construct memory and sound as terrain: a structure that delves into the elusive nature of memory, acknowledges the desire to contain it within solid material and struggles to dismantle it.

Previous independent works have been made through the support of Danspace Project, DTW (US), Conde Duque, CA2M (ES), Perdu (NL) and LMCC’s River to River Festival (US).

Other notable roles include Shulea Cheang’s 3x3x6 (2019 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion), Dennis Cooper/Zac Farley’s feature film Like Cattle Towards Glow and onstage for Robyn Orlin, Big Dance Theater, Aitana Cordero, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yvonne Meier, and Rob Icke.

They are currently working with YaaSamar Dance Theater – a transnational company based between New York and Palestine – as performer and dramaturg.