Puppetry skills for Contemporary Theatre
By exploring the physicality, presence and movement of a puppet we can watch as it learns how to walk, run, stumble and fall. We can witness how it can have feelings, emotions and even a sense of humour. By rekindling our own sense of play, we can create stories and happenings suitable for any audience.
We will improvise and play theatre games to examine the extent to which a puppet can perform theatrically with or without text and we will discover whether the puppet can be as expressive as any actor. We will explore various types of puppet so that we have a more complete understanding of how different puppets can be used in contemprary performance today.
Working individually and in groups, this fun and hands-on workshop will be a creative and safe space to experiment with some essential puppetry techniques and concepts. Participants can then go on to apply these ideas in their own professional practice and feel more confident when next auditioning for a role that requires some puppetry experience.
Suitable for all theatre creatives, performers, clowns, dancers and of course puppeteers. Puppetry experience is NOT necessary.
Duration: 3 hours to 5 days
Capacity: maximum 14 people
Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Granada, Spain
Moving Parts Puppet Festival. photo: Janina Sabaliauskaite
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