Minusmal
A string puppet in the Ramblas of Barcelona in June 2003 fascinates us with the beauty of animating the inanimate. Emotions are transformed into ideas, and from that idea a dream arises. And the dream is fulfilled …
Minusmal was born as a company at the beginning of 2007. That is when The Yellow Sofa is released, “a musical puppet show for everyone and for anyone …” with the live music of Mirco Mescia. In 2009 it is released again, with its own musical composition.
In 2010 the show Clara Clara is released, an adaptation for street of a fragment of the previous work. Since then Clara has toured stages of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Turkey, Germany and Holland among others. In 2017 we are working on its launch and tour in Spain.
Currently the company is in the process of creating two shows and researching the incorporation of new technologies (microcontrollers and robots) into the world of puppets.
Since Minusmal we are convinced that puppets they have a magic touch that easily pulls out the sleeping child that we all carry inside, and to which we want to awaken with sensitivity, visual poetry and some reflections through our work. Minusmal is the result of the work in body and soul of Raimon Ruíz and everything a human team that has collaborated in each of its projects based on information, advice, support and enthusiasm, and that are part of the heart of the company.
At the moment, the dream continues …