A Christmas Bubbles full of dreams
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For the last day of the Luaga und
Losna festival in Feldkirch we’re happy to meet again The Bubble Laboratory.
After their street show where Iulia Benze, Milkshake, was more an assistant
than an important character, we have some expectations about it, to see if it
was an accident or if it’s also the same thing… We weren’t disappointed at all,
in this show, Milkshake is more than an assistant, she is the inspiration for
the puppet Mini Milskshake and most of the time the puppeteer of the “tiny her”
and the little match girl. For this show named A Christmas bubble show, they get inspired by the Hans Christian
Andersen tale The little match girl.
So let’s see how a bubble can become a match.
The match girl tale
If Kurt Murray, who interprets Dr.
Bubble, Mini Milkshake’father, speaks about this Danish tale, it’s because Mini
Milskshake wants a story before sleeping. He’s offering her a story without any
word but with bubbles…
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It’s true that you need to already
know the tale to understand perfectly the narrative, but it doesn’t really
matter if the children never read the story because everything is poetic and
magic so he will be on the show quite easily. For the parents who know the
tale, it’s a real pleasure to discover how they manage to put the tale’s
picture on it. The first match is a chicken on a stick who’s floating until the
bubble machine which creates some bubble cakes, the second is a bubble stick
with a Christmas star and a fairy light on it, and the last in which she sees
her beloved grand-mother presented with two wings like a fairy god mother.
Interpreted by Iulia Benze, this granny comes with a lot of energy and tries to
make the little girl happy and by doing it, tries to make all the children happy
too. And it works! At the end, the little girl played by a puppet also becomes
an angel and fly to a sky full of snowy bubbles… the paradise for some children
no? And at the end all the bubbles go over the public to be hit by the bubble
sweetness and prolongate a little the trip into this fairy world.
A poetic bubble show
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The strength of those artists is,
first their talent, but also their capacity to analyse how to catch an
audience. If we thought it was a little eye-catching in the street, inside it’s
absolutely different. The entrance is made with intelligence, dynamic and
humour, so we’re directly on it and they never lose us in the way to the bubble
heaven. The other interesting thing is that if they use some similar tricks
than in the street show, the tours are very different. This time we cross a
jelly fish, a train made with smoking bubbles, and regular ones, the bubble
kiss and a much bigger rainbow, more bubbles into bubbles, etc. Because inside,
it’s easier to control the bubbles, they can manipulate them more and create
some impressive effects. Like in the previous show they use a lot of classical
music, most of them in relation with the winter universe like Nutcracker or The Swan lake from
Tchaikovsky, the winter theme from The
four seasons from Vivaldi, or The
Hungarian dance N°5 form Brahms, they also use some The Waltz n°2 from Shostakovitch, or some softly music like Für Elise from Beethoven, etc. And after
Carmina Burana from Carl Orff, to
announce the literal apotheosis of the show, the girl turning into an angel,
they use The Ride of the Walkyries
from Wagner. All is put together to
make a real show, with some well chosen music, huge bubble effects and
interactivity with the audience. Like they did for the street show, they invite
three children on stage, to make bubble with glasses, to go into a bubble or be
disguised with bubbles. And if your kids have a good behaviour, they can have a
little surprise at the end…
This show was way better than the
street show because they could easily manipulate the bubbles but also because
there is a good balance in the role repartition, both have an importance on this
amazing show which will enjoy children and parents, and give bubbles instead of
stars in the eyes!
Jérémy Engler, from L'Envolée Culturelle
