The figure on the left is the puppet on the far right is the puppet’s shadow on the screen. Pictured here are shadow masks of Klaatu and Helen (created by Aziza Afzal ’17, working with Ry Burke ’17, Jake Gonnella ’17, and Ashlin Hatch ’17). They began the course by exploring what defines a puppet, where the line between a puppet and a mask lies, and what it means to animate objects.įor their final project, the students developed and performed a shadow theatre adaptation of the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Students studied both traditional Indonesian shadow play and contemporary forms inspired by it. Peter Ksander’s Puppetry and the Performing Object class this spring. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design.Traditions of shadow puppetry were the focus of the second half of Prof. The event is co-sponsored by the Sheila C. Yvette Christiansë, Visiting Professor of Africana Studies, Barnard College, and Associate Professor of English, Fordham Universityĭan Hurlin, puppeteer and Director of the Graduate Program in Theater, Sarah Lawrence Collegeīasil Jones and Adrian Kohler, Handspring Puppet Company They have collaborated with many artists including Malis Sogolon Puppet Troupe and South African artist William Kentridge, and have appeared in over two hundred venues in South Africa and abroad. Founded in 1981 by Basil Jones, Adrian Kohler, Jill Joubert and Jon Weinberg, the company has produced eleven plays and two operas, often directly addressing pressing political concerns such as the proceedings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The extraordinary success of Warhorse has drawn attention to Handsprings decades-long experiments and innovations in the art of puppetry and their remarkable contribution to theater in South Africa. Taylor has worked with Handspring in developing two major works: the script for Ubu and the Truth Commission and the libretto for The Confessions of Zeno. If you want to major in kombucha (or wine, or yogurt, or even miso).
They focus on puppetry as a contemporary medium of communication and advocacy, and look at what the artists have defined as object as verb, movement as thought and the authorial audience.Ĭome hear writer, curator and scholar Jane Taylor speak on Tuesday April 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m. The University of Connecticuts MA/MFA in Puppetry is one of the worlds best. On the eve of the premiere, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company and winners of Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards for this piece, converse with South African-born poet, author, and scholar Yvette Christiansë and puppeteer Dan Hurlin. It will open at Lincoln Center on April 14, 2011. Set in World War I, the novel speaks of the immense slaughter of soldiers on all sides told from the perspective of an English farm horse.
Warhorse is based on the celebrated novel by British writer Michael Morpurgo. Photo by Simon Anandįrom South Africa, via London, comes Warhorse, the hugely successful theater and puppetry collaboration between Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company and the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Puppetry majors are encouraged to put on their own productions. UConn is now one of three colleges in America to offer a BFA degree in puppet arts, and the only university in the country offering a masters degree in the field. Ballard first taught classes in puppetry at UConn in 1964. Handspring Puppet Company and the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, Warhorse, 2010 (production still). Puppetry (University of Connecticut) Professor Frank W.
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