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Nincompoop, a new piece by Barragán and BQdanza members, explores waiting and rebellion against the status quo through whimsical movement by five larger than life puppets. Eventhough a nincompoop is believed to be a rather silly or socially clumsy being, there was also a Nincompoopiana aesthetic movement that began in the 1880’s, which rebelled against the pretty and the respectable. Carla Barragán combines these two meanings to weave real and made-up scenarios in relation to our waiting, with the puppets as archetypes.

The exciting challenge for the company is to develop the performance language. The dancers animate the puppet characters from within through a mixture of puppetry techniques and contemporary dance creating a new, merged movement language - not typical of the puppetry world, in which hands and head are the most important.