Introduction
to Puppetry
Date: Sat, Mar 23, 2013
Location:
Royal Roads
University
Length:
1 day
Times: 10am – 4:30pm
Cost:
$95 + applicable taxes
By phone (250) 391-2513
or Toll Free 1-866-890-0220
Course Description
You
are a puppeteer! Can you say, that at one time or another, as child
or adult, you brought a doll, stick, shadow or empty beer can to
life, with a voice and identity? Simple, beautiful, joyful and yet
incredibly complex, the humble art of puppet theatre breaks through
creative boundaries. Elements of drama, storytelling, dance, music,
visual arts and ritual combine in this ancient and ever expanding art
form. Participants will explore the creative art of puppet theatre
through exercises in physicality, discovering character,
improvisation, crafting story and puppet manipulation, design and
building. In an art form where the boundaries are as limitless as our
imaginations, there are no right or wrong answers, only wildly
creative alternatives. This day promises deeply imaginative fun and
frivolity!
Topics: • Discovering and
building a character
• Storytelling: crafting and expressing a
narrative
• Styles of puppetry
• Physical approach to
manipulation technique
• Design and building puppets
•
Puppetry as art form
• Movement and improv
Facilitator:
Tangle Caron is a performer, puppeteer, musician,
environmental educator, napper, snacker and Lady Adventurer.
Currently, she is a puppeteer for Mountain WHIT, Canada Park's
professional theatre troupe, co-director of Entangled Puppetry and a
founding member of The Found Object Puppetry Collective. She has had
the great fortune to study with Bread and Puppet Theatre and at the
Banff Puppetry Intensive presented by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop.
Tangle believes joy is an essential part of the creative process and
is prone to fits of exuberant silliness, which she is pleased to have
harnessed into a career.
