PUPPETRY
Puppetry: The Art of Bringing Stories to Life
🎠A World of Puppets: Enter the enchanting realm of Puppetry, where crafting and animating characters becomes a form of art. This course takes you on a journey through the diverse puppetry traditions in theater and film, embracing a world rich in culture and creativity.
🌟 From Sketch to Stage: Discover an array of puppet types – from marionettes to shadow puppets, each with its own unique charm. You’ll delve into designing and building your own puppets, inspired by a spectrum of traditional and modern styles.
🎨 Crafting Characters: Learn the intricacies of puppet making, understanding the materials and techniques to bring your puppet to life. It’s not just building; it’s about creating a character with a story to tell.
🎪 Perform and Collaborate: Master the art of puppet operation in a professional theater setting. Beyond your creations, collaborate as a consultant for other YourDNA programs, providing custom puppetry solutions and bringing your expertise to a wider stage.
Join our Puppetry course and embark on a creative journey where your hands bring stories to life, one puppet at a time! 🌈✨
PUPPETRY
Puppetry involves the design, making and operation of puppets in a variety of performing arts contexts. These skills will be developed through exposure to puppetry across the theatre and film industry as well as various cultural traditions. Participants will be introduced to the vast array of puppet types -marionettes, rod puppets, hand puppets, finger puppets, giant puppets, shadow puppets, and other traditional forms of puppetry – eg: bunraku, moteka, marotte, etc.as research and inspiration for designing and building their own puppets to operate in performance during the year.
The program will involve:
•Immersion into the rich and varied colourful world of puppets!
•Puppet design – Inspired by exposure to the spectrum of puppet types, students decide upon a kind of puppet they wish to build and perform
•Puppet building – Students will gain an understanding of materials and methods appropriate to the construction of the different puppet types
•Puppet operation – Performing a puppet in a professional theatre environment
•Workplace safety – using real life experiences to develop awareness of safe work practices
•Creative expression- the students bring their own creative flair through design, creation, storytelling, and performance of their puppets
Collaboration – there is potential for otherYour DNA programs to require a puppet to be built for their theatre or film show. This provides the opportunity for participants to operate as consultants for these programs, gathering information from their ‘clients’ requirements, planning and delivering on the contract.
