Open calls for Thematic Dossier: 35 years of the Lambe-Lambe Theater 2024 /01 - v.1, ed. 30 Submissions until June 31, 2024 / Publication August 2024

The Lambe-Lambe Theater is a puppetry expression that originated in Brazil, emerging as a solution to Denise Di Santos and Ismine Lima’s pedagogical needs in the state of Bahia, 1989.

During her lessons, Denise felt the need to create a more intimate representation in order to approach the subject of pregnancy with the audience. 

Using a pregnant puppet as a teaching resource, she realized that this experience could be even more impactful if it was done in a closer and more involving way. 

So she had the idea of encapsulating this scene inside a box, evoking the atmosphere of the old Lambe-Lambe photographers' cameras from the 1940s to the 1960s. This is how "The Dance of Childbirth" was created, the first Lambe-Lambe Theater show that we have a record of in Brazil.

Since then, Teatro Lambe-Lambe has inspired puppet artists to build their own miniature theater boxes in a variety of formats, spreading them to countless regions of Brazil, as well as several countries around the world. Since the 1990s, the creativity of artists has evolved the aesthetic, poetic, designing and dramaturgical aspects of this theatrical form, expanding the interaction between actor, stage fabric and audience. The enchanting power and the simplicity of the small things is one of the powers that resonates in the interior images of these "small showhouses'' (as Denise calls them).

In this call for submissions for the thirtieth edition of Móin-Móin Magazine, we celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Lambe-Lambe Theater in Brazil and we are inviting authors, researchers and artists to contribute to the history and transformation of artistic processes and performances of this genre, reflecting on the following questions:

 

• How did Lambe-Lambe Theater arise, what are its antecedents and how has the history of this expression developed in Brazil?
• Is it possible to speak of a language of the Lambe-Lambe Theater? What characterizes it?
• How is the language being spread among brazilian regions and what are its connections with other countries?
• How do the poetics of language operate and how are dramaturgies built? What are the challenges presented by the merging of languages? What are its plastic aspects and which techniques are used to create Lambe-Lambe works?
• What are the performance spaces and manufacturing possibilities?
• What are the methods of management and production of the Lambe-Lambe Theater artists and how do they work?
• What economic prospects does Lambe-Lambe Theater offer to the artists who work with this language?
• What distribution circuits has the language been generating and how are they organized?
• Who are the Lambe-Lambe artists and where are they located?
• How do the specific features of the language relate to the themes addressed?
• How does the intimate relationship with the spectator affect the playwriting?
• What are the technical specifics and the training required for the actor-puppeteer?
• What teaching potential does the language offer to schools?
• What technological possibilities can Lambe-Lambe offer?
• What are the ecological perspectives and what is the relationship with sustainability in the use of materials?
• What social-political dimension and emancipating potential does the language offer?
• How many academic works have been dedicated to this theme and what are they?

We would like to remind you that you can submit articles, translations, interviews and unpublished reports.

For more details, go to the Móin-Móin Magazine's website: 

https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/moin

Guidelines for authors: 

https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/moin/about/submissions#authorGuidelines