- Déborah Hunt and her 21st Century Snow White
The recently concluded 13er Taller Internacional de Títeres de Matanzas (13th International Puppet Workshop) in Matanzas, Titim, brought to Cuba, from the sister island of Puerto Rico, an artist who has made the Caribbean her home and her space for the creation of masks and figures, which she handles to create and recreate worlds of brilliant expressivity and sharp irony: Déborah Hunt. Born and trained in New Zealand, love took her to Borinquen, after a journey of work in New York, New Mexico and Mexico, and she soon became a reference of a visual theater whose secrets she has passed on with generosity.
This time, she arrived with her most recent work, Cuento 53, Snowhite, premiered to celebrate her forty-five years of artistic creation, after presenting it in San Juan, San Germán and New York. And in its two presentations, she immediately conquered the audience of the Titim. Accompanied by cellist and composer Shanti Lalita, together they build a macabre world that subverts the Snow White of the Grimm brothers, and seduces the spectators with the magic of the theater of objects linked to performance and live music.