FIREFLIES
Fireflies - the creative team working in the genre of shadow theater since 2010. The finalists of TV talent show format Got Talent «Ukraine Got Talent", Ukraine, "Minute of Fame", Russia, «Mam Talent», Poland, «Das Supertalent», Germany.
Shadow theater Fireflies performs on numerous local, regional and international scenes, takes part in various festivals, competitions, ceremonies, awards and other activities. The theater was a member of the Closing Ceremony III Odessa International Film Festival, awarding ceremony of the International Festival Competition "Choise of the year 2012" International Festival of Contemporary Art "GogolFest 2012" Festival «Qatar Spring Festival 2013", the opening ceremony of the Odessa International Film Festival IV.
Shadow theater Fireflies is also actively involved in socially significant projects. The theater became the winner of social advertising, initiated by the Foundation "ANTIAIDS" Elena Pinchuk in the International Festival of the actual animation and media arts LINOLEUM 2014.
Shadow theater Fireflies performs on numerous local, regional and international scenes, takes part in various festivals, competitions, ceremonies, awards and other activities. The theater was a member of the Closing Ceremony III Odessa International Film Festival, awarding ceremony of the International Festival Competition "Choise of the year 2012" International Festival of Contemporary Art "GogolFest 2012" Festival «Qatar Spring Festival 2013", the opening ceremony of the Odessa International Film Festival IV.
Shadow theater Fireflies is also actively involved in socially significant projects. The theater became the winner of social advertising, initiated by the Foundation "ANTIAIDS" Elena Pinchuk in the International Festival of the actual animation and media arts LINOLEUM 2014.
I found this theatre company most interesting because they explore the use of the body a lot. As amateur shadow artists ourself, it is not entirely feasible for us to do extremely complicated shadows that probably take months and months to perfect. Most theatre companies that use shadow work use their body to create different objects (Attraction). While this is amazing and we would like to incorporate it into our piece a little bit, it will be to a limited amount. This theatre company showed me that it is possible to use the body as a body and still make pretty spellbinding illusions.
The downside of this theatre companies practise for us is that it has very high production values and the performers are very flexible. This flexibility has no doubt taken them years to achieve. Due to that, some of the shadows they created looked brilliant. While it looked brilliant, it made this theatre company a little bit more unaccessible for us.
Therefore, while I found this theatre company quite interesting and plan to incorporate their ideas with the use of depth and hand shadows, it will not qualify as my primary theatre company that influences our collaborative project.
The downside of this theatre companies practise for us is that it has very high production values and the performers are very flexible. This flexibility has no doubt taken them years to achieve. Due to that, some of the shadows they created looked brilliant. While it looked brilliant, it made this theatre company a little bit more unaccessible for us.
Therefore, while I found this theatre company quite interesting and plan to incorporate their ideas with the use of depth and hand shadows, it will not qualify as my primary theatre company that influences our collaborative project.