Description:

During this course one will be able to understand and feel the animating process that begins from the master (pupeteer - animator), inspirits the puppet (puppet as a real material, as a digital object, as human body) and then comes back to the master. The retrospection in traditional forms of puppetry, coming from a variety of places around the world, will reveal the deep connection with the most contemporary techniques used in cinematic industry for capturing life and bringing it to the digital wold. A set of performing exercises will give the opportunity to experience puppetry in a bidirectional way, into the dipole master / puppet.

Keywords:

animation, puppetry, performance

Objectives (hour):

1. Observing animating process in puppetry: Traditional forms - Walt Disney - Contemporary techniques.
2. Meet you puppet / Meet your master: Performing exercises for master - puppet couples.
3. Meet traditional greek puppets and act as if you were them.

Prerequisites/advisable prior knowledge:

n/a.

Recommended reading list:

• Lecoq, J., Carasso, L.G., Lallias, J.C., (2002) The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre, New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Thomas, F., Johnston, O., (1981) The Illusion of Life, Disney Animation, New York: Disney Editions
• Beiman, N., (2010) Animated Performance, Switzerland: AVA Publishing SA
• Hayes, D., Webster C. (2013) Acting and Performance for Animation, UK: Focal Press, Taylor & Francis Group
• Currell D., (2007) Shadow Puppets & Shadow Play, UK: The Crosswood Press Ltd
• Arps, B., (2016) Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto - A Study in Performance Philology, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press
• Myrsiades, K., Kyrsiades, L.S., (1988) The Karagiozis Heroic Performance in Greek Shadow Theater, UK: University Press of New England