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Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
Bookaboo is one of the many puppets featured at the Puppet Heap workshop in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
A puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, which is a very ancient form of theatre.
A Kathputli show in Mandawa, Rajasthan, India
There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. They can be extremely complex or very simple in their construction.
Teochew Rod Puppet originated from Southern China and only performed during the birthdays of Chinese deities and others temple festivities. The puppet's theater consists of wooden puppets that are manipulated by a pair of puppeteers who speak and sing in the Teochew dialect.
Called "marionette show" in ancient China, a puppet show is a theatre performance in which puppet figures are made to move by puppeteers pulling strings or by putting their hands inside them.
In China, the origin of puppets dates back to the Shang Dynasty, when the custom of burying slaves alive with their deceased masters was practiced. Of the 3,000 funeral objects excavated from the Yin Ruins in Anyang City, there are pottery figurines of slaves with cangues. In the Warring States Period, there appeared entertaining figurines used in story-telling and singing performances as props. And such art forms became popular. After the Han Dynasty, a puppet show gradually developed into a folk art combining opera, literature, sculpture and painting that appealed to both humans and divinities.
During the Three Kingdoms Period, there were "water-driven one hundred play" featuring exquisitely-made puppets performing humanlike singing, dancing and acrobatics. In the Song Dynasty, puppet shows enjoyed an unprecedented boom, with a wide variety of puppet types used in the plays, including string puppets, rod puppets, water puppets, pyrotechnic puppets, iron stick puppets, glove puppets and flesh puppets etc.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, puppet plays caught on in all areas. By integrating with local operas, various kinds of regional puppet plays came into being, such as Heyang string puppet play of Shaanxi and Zhangzhou glove puppet play of Fujian. Puppet shows also advanced with the times. After the movie came into being, they found their way into the movie field, creating increasing impact of puppet shows.
In former times, a puppet show was one of the most popular entertaining art forms among ordinary people. Such shows were usually staged on occasions like sacrificial rituals and festive banquets, adding color to people's life. In modern times, however, puppet shows suffered decline due to war chaos. But they caught on again shortly after the war.
After 1949, except for a handful of private puppet troupes, most others were restructured as government-funded troupes. While retaining traditional plays, these puppet troupes created a large number of modern plays, also known as "civilized new plays".
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I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
-- Donny Osmond
Our Independence Day was on the 17th of June. These girls where playing puppets outside one of Reykjavík´s most popular bar.
Took this photo just before NYE while setting up for a party (Indo/Bali Party). These Puppets are from Indonesia, there name is Wayang golek (rod puppets). Not to sure what this character is. They looked very good lined up on the Banana Tree that we cut down just for them. I think there was about 20 of them all up.
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Puppet show during Vacation Bible School 2011 at the College Street Church of Christ in Waxahachie, Texas.
a puppet sitting by the blackboard at a restaurant in L.A. that simulates an elementary school classroom, two names were written at the board corner (one seen here) to note their turn that day for the chore...
can't recognize the character and from which show about that puppet... any idea?
an intro to the glove puppetry www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/glove_puppetry/
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Bob Walls, puppeteer extraordinaire, and his hand- carved, beautifully costumed Stevens Puppets Marionettes take us to the magical, beautiful, and dangerous land of Oz in this fantasy adventure for the whole family.
My seven, almost eight year old daughter, Finn and I made this little puppet theatre for a birthday present for her friend.
It has a little battery operated light in the roof and a wind up music maker from a toy jewellry box screwed onto the side.
We had lots of fun making this for her, and we also made a mix tape for her with all Finn's favourite music on it.
Organiser Anee poses with one of the puppets from Basant Lahore; a performance by the Fetch Theater Company - a unique fusion of puppetry and poetry.