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Beginner Ventriloquism
This instructional DVD teaches the basic and advanced techniques for learning ventriloquism. Learn how to talk without moving your lips, develop a personality and manipulation skills for your figure, and how to prepare for and get shows. Packed with techniques and tips, this video is an invaluable tool for the entry-level ventriloquist.
Chapters:
Introduction, Breathing exercises, Ventriloquist’s mouth position, Ventriloquist’s alphabet, Pronouncing the labials: W, Y, V, F, B, P, and M, Distant ventriloquism, Developing a puppet voice, Puppets’ background & history, Types of puppets, Puppet manipulation, Puppet positions, The art of the joke, Pre-show preparation, Getting shows, Showtime!
Magical Mike is a performing entertainer and has released over 50 educational books and videos covering such topics as mathematics, engineering, and the martial and entertainment arts.
Instructional DVD /2015/ Approximately 80 minutes.
Available at www.fightandentertain.com, www.createspace.com/850016103, and
These wooden hinged dolls are used with a board that is vibrated by hand. The puppets feet are standing on the board and as the board is twanging up and down it hits the feet and makes the puppets dance. They can be made to dance a rhythem which sounds like tap dancing or step dancing. It's a French Canadian folk art. I haven't a clue what they are really called
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These marionettes are some of the first toys I made back in 1996 or 97. I was heavily into the Tim Burton style.. unlike the cute and cuddly style I prefer now. It was time to archive them before the rest of them fell apart. Sadly they sit in storage waiting to take there place on the puppet stage.
These finger puppets are like little sculptures you can play with.
Materials: Creative Paperclay® over a wooden base, painted with
gouache paint and varnished with waterbased acrylic varnish.
Day 49 of 365 (Year Three)
I was hoping to get some shots tonight from a friend for a little collaborative project I am working on for Class With Dave and Dave, but they didn't arrive tonight. With those shots not here, I wasn't sure what I was going to do.
I put up the backdrop and, as normal, just started shooting. I didn't know where I was headed or why, but I ended up playing with the shadows that the flash was throwing. One thing led to another and I ended up with an avian shadow puppet. Definitely not where I though I'd end up tonight for the selfie, but then that is pretty normal for me.
Making traditional Javanese Shadow Puppets at the Sultan's Kraton in Yogyakarta. A reused bicycle spoke and mallet are used to perforate the buffalo hide leather.
This was taken at an antiques fair at La Bisbal d'Emporda. When on holiday in Spain, we normally spend Saturdays and Sundays foraging amongst the tat and junk of the local car boot sales.
This market was a cut above those with many quality items - most of which were way beyond our price range.
I just liked the fact that this very old Oriental puppet was propped up against a tree waiting for somebody to fall in love with him. I'm not sure anybody did.
we tried to made a muppet version of Craig. This was the shaggier, beardier version - later we replaced the shaggy beard with a tidier burlap version!
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
(Anwar Sadat)
Exhibition by www.hetfirmament.be/ at Hingene (Kasteel d'Ursel)
One very popular form of entertainment in Prague are its puppet theatres, and you’ll find puppets for sale in many of the souvenir shops in the tourist areas.
Marionettes first came to Bohemia in the late 1600s, brought in by performers from across Europe, notably France, Italy and the Netherlands, but by the 1700s, the Czechs had established their own companies.
At first these puppets were almost lifesized, and were used as a cheaper alternative to paying real actors. Some shows used only puppets whilst others had a combination of live actors and marionettes, depending on what they could afford. Eventually though, as the puppet makers developed their skills and wanted to experiment, they began to make more stylised puppets, using the form and appearance of the puppet to portray or emphasise certain attributes of the character.
Today you’ll find various performances running in Prague, perhaps the most famous being the National Marionette Theatre in the Old Town, which famously performs Mozart’s Don Giovanni using puppets (Don Giovanni also has a strong connection with Prague, having had its world premiere here in 1787).
An interesting site as we walked down the street in Jianyaun. We heard this puppet show before we saw it, as the audio was blaring quite loudly from the speaker below the stage. It sounded like the public address address in the movie 1984, except in Chinese!
Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.
This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.
For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.
We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.
I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.
From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.
View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884
Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
Pierce Desrochers-O'Sullivan, Robin and Amanda goof around with puppet gloves in the Unraku workshop.
My wife makes puppets. These 3 puppets are on their way to Belise (but not in the dory!) with a group from Christ Church Cathedral www.christchurchcathedral.com/ who are going on a mission trip to Belise.
You can also see a variation on this picture here.
one of my first puppets (7 years ago), designed for a puppet show that didn't come to life (yet) after the novel "Moscow-Petushky" by Venedict Yerofeyev. this one is an unfinnieshed puppet of a drunken angry woman with a moustache and a brown barret. the eyes are closing&opening, the mouth is opening, the legs have a walking mechanism and the hair is hudden in the hat untill the alcohol causes mass hallucination and then it springs up and reveels snake heads on the hair tips- like a meduza-gorgona