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These are live performers captured at the last performance of "Garden of the Wild" by the amazing Paperhand Puppet Intervention group at the Forest Theater, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC. Wonderful music, costumes, and great puppet art!
About Paperhand:
Paperhand Puppet Intervention is Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger in an ongoing collaboration with their community. Now in their 5th year, Paperhand, uses cardboard, papier mache’, trash, and a variety of puppetry styles to help promote social change, peace, and hope for a better world.
Shorts created in a size 4 using the Puppet Show Shorts pattern by Oliver + S.
Fabrics used: something black from the remnant bin at my local fabric store and a colorful yardstick print I won and have been hoarding!
Modeled by my lovely three year old daughter
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):
Silkscreened posters for puppet shows in Philadelphia, Providence and Chicago, 2000 to 2005. Posters pictured here include the work of the Insurrection Landscapers (top left), Frank Maugery (right of top left), Jo Dery (top two right), Lief Goldberg (mid-right), Morgão (mid-left and center), and Bob Kamzelski (bottom row).
These posters were part of the show OUR EYES NEED ART on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia. They serve as a document of an underground puppetry arts movement that has been largely undocumented. Philadelphia has become a nexus for this movement largely because of Puppet Uprising, an organization that hosts performance events for local and touring puppeteers in Philadelphia. The bottom row of silkscreen posters are from some of Puppet Uprising's early cabarets at the CEC, Calvary Church, and the Rotunda in West Philly.
The Sock Puppet Fairy (TM)
I gave Dad some socks on his birthday as a joke (having first hidden the DVDs).
It backfired in that he was genuinely delighted - removing a shoe and waggling toes through holes at me in proof of his dire sockless existence.
So Christmas demanded upping the ante - a whole tree festooned with pairs of socks.
There were going to be sock tinsel/baubles etc in different colours, but limited precious PikeyAir luggage allowance killed that. I went through security with them stuffed under my armpits in a desperate attempt to beat the 10kilo bag limit. Which was interesting. TIP: wear cargo combats - you can pile tons of crap in the pockets which doesn't count :D
Traditional Thai Puppet Theater,Nattayasala Hun Lakorn Lek(Joe Louis), Suan Lum Night Bazaar, Bangkok, --Thailand--
Introducing Thai Theatrical Puppetry
The thratrical puppetry is unique smong the various forms of puppetry in that each puppet
represents a character taken from the traditional Thai theater. There are three types of
traditional Thai theatrical performances, all of which are stylized, with dancing, singing and music
comparable in complexity with the European opera-ballet of the 18th century French royal
court at Versailles. The most sophisticated od these is khon, which performs only the ramakian
(the Thai versoin of the Indian epic, Ramayana); the less ssophisticated is lakhon, performs all
other classics of Thai drama; and the least sophisticated is likey, which performs common
drames, Thai theatrical puppetry is also unique in that each puppet requires the synchronised
efforts of three puppeteers is its manipulation, all of whom appear on stage with the puppet
and each of whom is khon, lakhon or likay performer in his or her own right. The puppets, in
short, perform khon, lakhon or likay on stage with the puppeteers, where the name 'theatrical
puppetry'.
The Traditional Thai Puppet Theater Company is the authoritative guardian of this dying art
form: the directors and senior members of the troupe are direct artistic seccessors of the
founder of Thai theatrical puppetry. Performances are as unique as they are authentic
Performance at the Traditional Thai Puppet Theater are s showcase for Thailand 's cultural
heritage and reflect the undtinting efforts of the troupe to preserve and perpetuate this exotic art form.
Thanks for information from www.thaipuppet.com/core/content/view/2/6/lang,en/
A miniature puppet theater originally printed in the 1800's by the French publisher Imagerie D'Epinal. Taken from the Agence Eureka website.
Wayang golek are wooden doll puppets that are operated from below by rods connected to the hands and a central control rod that runs through the body to the head. The simple construction of the puppets belies their versatility, expressiveness and aptitude for imitating human dance.
The Most Famous Wayang Golek's Dalang in Indonesia are Mr. Asep Sunandar Sunarya (showed in picture).
This is one of the puppets. The lower faces were sculpted in a computer and "printed" using rapid prototyping technology. The seam you can see around the eyes was painstakingly removed in post-processing.
Jon and I are working on a puppet version of me! He made the foam body inside and I sewed the outer body.
I gave her black yarn hair with light blue "highlights" (they're supposed to be grey hairs)
I'm still trying to decide if I like the darker eyelids. I think I like them. I don't wear makeup, but I do have darkness around my eyes.
Instruction 25: 'Talk to strangers, let them take you to places' (Mark Alor Powell). I've always wanted to talk to David Perry, the famous Norwich puppet man (all you need to know is at www.norwichpuppetman.co.uk/about.php).......His battered tape player is falling to bits and his tapes of 60s pop have seen better days, but he's a delightful man. I picked this shot mainly for the disapproving look the woman walking behind him is giving me.