Andean myth meets an indie love story.
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Dramatic Yawar festivals are designed to show the triumph of indigenous culture over colonial influence, but the number of condors injured and killed raises fears for the species’ survival
“We know there are up to 55 Yawar fiestas a year… and some condors are dying. Undoubtedly it is a threat to a species that is at a very much reduced population level,” says Rob Williams, Peru co-ordinator for the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who estimates there may be just 300-500 left in the wild in Peru. “We are on a threshold and if we push the condors much further over this threshold, it will be very difficult for them to recover.”
This festival marries colonial influences with the Andean worship of the condor – considered a messenger between earth and the heavens.
How much longer the condor and the Yawar can continue to grace the Andes looks likely to depend on whether the festival can undergo another evolution to add that most modern of ideas – conservation – to the blend of local traditions and foreign influences that already constitute the Yawar fiesta.
Dramatic Adventure Theatre
&
Abingdon Theatre Company
present a Pop Up Playhouse performance of
A Girl without Wings
A new play by Jason Williamson
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
ONE DAY ONLY!!!
This Saturday
November 17, 2012
@11am
Where:
Abingdon Theatre
312 West 36th Street
(between 8th and 9th, 2nd Floor)
Make a puppet!
Before and after the presentation we will be making shadow puppets in the lobby — so come early or stay after and make your very own Condor puppet!
FREE
Tickets are free, reservations recommended, donations appreciated.
Please e-mail info@dramaticadventure.com to reserve seats.
If you would like to make a donation online, go to dramaticadventure.com/support
SHOE DRIVE
At Saturday’s performance, we will also be collecting new and lightly used shoes (preferably in children’s sizes) for impoverished families in the Ecuadorian Andes. So, please take a look in your closet and under your bed to see if you have an extra pair of shoes to donate to the cause.
Cast
Elisha Lawson, Christen Madrazo, Katey Parker, Flor De Liz Perez,
Mary K. Redington, Liam Rhodes, and featuring Paul Helou on guitar!
About A Girl without Wings
Andean myth meets an indie love story in A Girl without Wings — set in a vibrant puppet world where wicked hummingbirds dart through the air, brightly colored threads of prayer reach for the gods, and a storm of shoes rain from the sky. This new play for family audiences brings to vivid life the story of a lonely Condor who falls in love with a spunky shepherd girl named Chaska.
Visit agirlwithoutwings.com to learn more.
Bring your family to experience this playful and poetic riff on a native Andean folktale!
Mutual of Omaha proudly presents Wild Kingdom: Land of the Condor
This video is amazing on so many levels — grainy footage and saturated colors, vintage walkie talkies and awesome dirt bikes, featuring a man wrestling with Andean Condors (apparently for a good purpose), an unnecessary ape and hosted by an even more unnecessary guy that might be the Walt Disney of explorers. Wow.
Let’s make shadow puppets!
Today (October 19th), from 12-2pm, Dramatic Adventure Theatre and our friends at Abingdon Theatre will be hosting a few tables at the Fashion District Arts Festival (Broadway & 40th).
We will be making Condor shadow puppets with kids and the young at heart! This is so much fun for the kids as they will get to cut out, color, and watch their Condors fly!
This is also a great opportunity to learn about DAT’s Nov. 17th Pop Up Playhouse reading of ‘A Girl without Wings’ — an interspecies love story between an Andean Condor and a spunky young girl, a play which was developed on location in the Ecuadorian Andes.
‘A Girl without Wings’ will be performed at the Abingdon Theatre as part of their Pop Up Playhouse series, for more information about the reading, visit dramaticadventure.com/tickets
PS - Abingdon Theatre will also have children’s theatre performances happening during the event, which will add to the fun for the young ones!
(Source: blog.dramaticadventure.com)
THIS ANDEAN CONDOR IS A MEMBER OF THE SPECIES SURVIVAL PROGRAM.
His job is to help educate the public about the conservation needs of the world’s largest flying bird!
PS - He has an 11 foot wingspan!!!!! WOW.
QUESTION: WHAT DOES AN ANDEAN CONDOR LOOK LIKE WHEN IT IS EATING?
A Girl without Wings director, Kathleen Amshoff, is curious how an Andean Condor chews its food.
Well, here you are Kathleen! With a special bonus “Eye of the Condor” moment at the end of the clip. Enjoy!
A little Condor silliness… ah, the internet.
For the artist Guayasamín, this painting represents the struggle between the indigenous peoples (the condor) and their conquerors (the bull), but in its depiction of the condor as prevailing, the long history of colonialism is reversed.
