our second annual Performance Intensive

Learning the fundamentals of puppet performance, a different style each day for a week. Can't believe we have a whole new cohort! They will go on to create short pieces in our New Puppetworks program. We'll find out if we got the MRAC grant in a week! Finally caught up with the whole year now on this blog! 

Ben, Luis, Alejandra, Kallie ad Denise cutting out shadow puppets, and below, Hawona and Donavan.

Balancing sticks to understand focus.

Above is an excercise where the participants are pretending to be the puppets, to better understand how they need to be performed.

Bringing objects to life.

Andrew Kim sewing some handpuppets for our practice puppets. He also build us a small shadow screen to practice with.

Learning breath, focus and intent with fabric.