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Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

This is incredible stuff!

I thought so too. I was unaware of her until recently. I was reading some essays over at Academia.edu and I read the essay "The Grotesque as a paradigm of the Puppet Theatre in the 21st Century. Through an analysis of Ilka Schönbein’s show, The Old Lady and the Beast" by Anaëlle Impe.

I started poking around the net. I couldn't find the piece she referred to, but I did find some videos on Youtube and Vimeo. I uploaded the two short, haunting performances in the OP.