BABOK NEWS

Spring / Summer 2010

NAP International

This year we also perform our show NAP abroad. In May we were present at La Fira del Circ de Catalunya "Trapezí" in Reus, Spain. It is a very nice festival with one of the best audiences in Europe!

Grens

This summer we take our new show Grens out on the streets. After try outs in Apeldoorn and Amsterdam, we performed Grens at The International Puppet Theatre Festival of Dordrecht. We will also present Grens at the Onderstroom festival in Vlissingen and festival Boulevard in Den Bosch.

Grens is object theatre with your personal belongings. Everyday objects are placed in unusual situations. Grens is a short, interactive show about the deviding line between private and public, between intimate and inappropriate.

Autumn 2009

Preview 2010: New show Grens

The coming winter we start working on a new project. Grens (Border) will be an exciting and challenging street performance dealing with control and safety issues. Object theater with lots of improvisation and interaction between performers and audience members. In 2010 an encounter with Babok will involve safety precautions. Babok wants your attention and reaction, and your belongings as well!

NAP in Jerusalem

Last August NAP was performed at the International Festival for Puppet Theater in Jerusalem. It was the first time Babok performed outside of Europe. For this occasion Aat Dirks was part of our team. In 2008 he performed NAP during Carina's pregnancy.

In Jerusalem the NAP tower was placed on the courtyard of the beautifull, historic Khan Theater. During five days we gave close to fourty performances for a mixed audience. It was a big succes and a wonderfull experience. At the end of the show, when it started snowing, lots of people put their hand inside to try and cath the falling frothy flakes.

Looking back on the season

For Babok 2009 was a interim year. Instead of creating a new show, we decided to recapture our existing shows. IGLO we performed in Spain and Germany. NAP we performed in Germany and Israël. In Holland we performed IGLO in Arnhem, Delft,Venlo en IJlst. NAP we performed in Vlissingen. Coming December we will perform IGLO for four days in München (Germany). Considering the weather conditions just before Christmas these promise to be special shows.

Winter / spring 2009

Website vernieuwd

De afgelopen periode heeft onze webmaster Jessica Panhuijsen deze website aangepast. Zo is op de
fotopagina nu ook een selectie te zien van de foto's die we tijdens voorstellingen maken van ons publiek.
Binnenkort komen er verwijzingen naar korte filmpjes van onze voorstellingen.

Babok in 2009

Ons speelseizoen begint in 2009 eerder dan ooit. In februari vertrekken we naar Spanje om IGLO te spelen
op het VEO festival in Valencia. Voor de rest van het seizoen zijn we momenteel in overleg met festivals
in binnen- en buitenland. In het najaar van 2009 zullen we beginnen aan een nieuw project (werktitel: Grens).

zomer 2008

Babok en ICCO op Over het IJ

Van 3 tot en met 13 juli spelen we NAP op het Over het IJ festival in Amsterdam Noord (NDSM werf).
We doen dit in samenwerking met ICCO, een van de grootste Nederlandse organisaties op het
gebied van ontwikkelingssamenwerking.

Onder de noemer "partner voor ondernemende mensen" is ICCO actief in een groot aantal landen in Afrika,
Azie, Zuid Amerika en Oost Europa. Met hun campagne Fair Climate probeert ICCO die mensen in
ontwikelingslanden te helpen, die nu al last hebben van de gevolgen van klimaatverandering. Op Over het IJ
presenteren ICCO en Babok zich gezamenijk met een informatiestand en de voorstelling NAP. De volledige
opbrengst uit kaartverkoop zal ten goede komen aan een, door ICCO ondersteund, ontwikkelingsproject.
Voor meer inormatie over ICCO en de campagne Fair Climate vewijzen we naar de websites: www.icco.nl
en www.fairclimate.nl. Informatie over het festival, kun je vinden op www.overhetij.nl.

Later deze zomer spelen we NAP nog op Karavaan in Hoorn en Schagen en bij de Verkadefabriek
in Den Bosch. Zie de speellijst voor data en speelplekken.

May 10th to12th Babok performed the show IGLO at the International Streettheatre Festival of Detmold
in Germany. At this festival, which is held every two years, we were awarded the "Prize For The Outstanding
Production". The festival jury, four directors of leading European festivals, decided to split the price between
two companies. Thus, we are sharing it with Les Goulus from France and their performance The Horsemen.
The jury statement speaks of the high quality of the presented productions and, in the case of the two winners,
about performances that "do not define theatre, but invent it".; The Festival Price for large companies was also
divided. The winners were Kumulus and Le Snob, both from France.

For Babok this was the first time that we performed IGLO outside The Netherlands. In 2006 IGLO won the
first price at "Not The Cheesmarket" in Alkmaar, Holland. In the past Dutch companies Odd Enjinears (2004)
and Lunatics and Gajes (2006) also won prices in Detmold.