Puppetry

The Navajo puppetry culture is a most celebrated tradition into womanhood. The transition from child to adult is marked by maturity among all girls who come of age. It was a religious rite of passage that would stay with me mentally and physically. On the first morning to follow, the sun was yet to come out, I was dressed in my finest traditional clothes. Than I lay on the floor and was stretched by a female relative, other than a male or my father, but by my mom. It was a symbol of remolding myself

the form of a drama, or an animated series. However, the roots to these developments originate from the progression of Japanese theater. Japanese theater includes three main categories, Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh. Bunraku is a theater oriented around puppetry, while Kabuki is a theater that is centralized around dance and drama. Noh is a traditional Japanese theatrical form and one of the oldest extant theatrical forms in the world. Noh performers are simply storytellers who use their visual appearances

This week’s theme is beyond silence. In the world that is very fast paced and chaotic, we sometimes forget to appreciate silence. In silence we are able to appreciate little things that we may have taken for granted, may it be the leaves rustling or our own thoughts. The performance of Silencio Blanco was beyond performance with puppets, it was an art form. An art that serves a purpose beyond its superficial means. What really stuck out to me the most during our class session was the question and

Shadow puppetry had been a illusive form of moving images ever since Han-Dynasty, and also a form of art that had always intrigued me due to my heritage. During the Fringe Festival last week, I attended a contagious shadow performance called “Curious Contagion”, which broaden my view of moving images in modern art. It was assembled by a duo named “Mind of a Snail” who specialized in shadow puppetry, and they had been developing their unique blend of overhead projector and visual art since 2003. I

Jim Henson Jim Henson once said, “Follow your enthusiasm. It’s something I’ve always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing” (qtd. in Fionaurora). Jim did just that. He loved puppetry and made many others love it too. The creator and a performer of the Muppets, Henson is known worldwide for his creations, which include shows like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, and characters such as Grover, Elmo, Big Bird, the Swedish Chef, Bert and Ernie

“Jim checked out two books that would change his life: Majorie Batchelder’s 1947 puppetry handbook The Puppet Theatre Handbook, and My Profession, the 1950 autobiography of the versatile Russian puppeteer Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsovs’s inspired suggestions for performing.” (Jones, pg. 34). These two books were the fundamental building

ability to be comfortable with puppets. Though, I acknowledge puppetry is not one of the therapeutic techniques I am most comfortable with I am able to realize it has a lot of great use for example engaging a child who might seem distant or disconnected, allowing the child to project their feelings and express them using the puppets are brilliant ways of using this therapeutic technique. Being able to identify some of the ways where puppetry can be effective has allowed me to strengthen my skills with

San and her American lover through music and lyrics in Italian. The production uses visual imagery to connect with the audience across language barriers and to create a stunning picture. One example of this visual imagery is the use of Bunraku and puppetry to portray certain characters. The use of Bunraku for the child created a lifelike portrayal but could not provide full emotional depth, and the other puppets towards the beginning of the opera felt unnecessary and confusing. The child puppet moved

Theatre was a beautiful production that highlighted the distrustful, manipulative relationships within the show and allowed the comedic moments by the porter to highlight the horrors of what is happening in the show. The show also focused heavily on puppetry which helped the audience to envision the witches and Banquo’s ghost. This aided in enveloping the audience in these visions and the horror of them. The entire show is based on distrust and uneven relationships who are fueled by the need for power

1.2 Indian Theatre: A Brief Survey 1.2.1 Introduction Indian theatre is one of the longest and amplest theatres in the world; it dated back to around 5000 years, as the other theatres in over the world Indian theatre emerged in the seasonal celebration and religious ritual. Bharata's Natya Shastra was regarded to many Indian writers as the oldest and most detailed in the dramaturgy context, where the origin of word drama in Sanskrit was derived from the word “dance”.? . The history of Indian