The characters of the performance live a type of hallucinated existence as puppets which move electrically, using a special ecstatic form of ballet including movements which combine music with words, and light with movement and colors. Even though it can be traced back to the theatrical and musical tradition of the twentieth century (not only to Poupees and Chants, but also to Petruska and Pierrot Lunaire, for exmaple), the performance by Andrea Ciullo introduces a new form of musical drama. The open form and original manner in which the performance is executed, offer the possibility of encounter and exchange between artists of different disciplines and nationalities. Poupees Electriques is a drama in three acts which Filipino Tommaso Marinetti published in Paris in 1909, a short time prioir to the launching of the Futurism Manifesto. At the center of the drama, which to a great extent follows the rules of the traditional theater, two electric puppets act and move as human beings. Their presence preserves the love between the protagonists, the married couple John and Mary Wilson. Poupees Electriques inspired Marinetti's creation of the theatrical production entiled Eletricita'. Blanc de Zinc, by Andrea Ciullo is a free version of Poupees Electriques, inspired also by les chants de la mi-mort, by Alberto Savinio. The puppets, controlled electrically by John Wilson, seem to anticipate the mannequin of de Chirico, the puppet Petruska of Stravinsky, the musician lacking eyes, a nose and ears of Apollinaire and the mechanical dolls of many ballets by Diaghilev. Ciullo sees Poupees of Marinetti as a model for a ballet using voices, and sees Marinetti as a barker at the vanity fair.