TH5355

This course is intended to be a broad survey of the vocabulary of Puppetry Arts. The form allows for a combination of creation, design, construction, sculpture, text and image, dramaturgy, storytelling, movement, music, and performance. The work and energy of this class comes from you. It is a laboratory, a place to play, inspire, experiment, fail, fail again, and then continue to experiment to try and understand the nuances of each form. This is not a class to make you puppeteers, but rather an investigation of a vocabulary that may resonate in your own discipline or practice. The hope is to introduce you to a wide variety of forms of puppetry that will affect your individual artistic practice. Alongside this survey of the wide spectrum of puppet modes, we will also partner with our collaborator, Open Eye Theatre, and learn the basics of creating a tourable puppet show.

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Periodic Spring