Warehouse Circus: Carnivale Puppet Parade
Oct 9th, 2006 by hil
In late winter 2006 I lead workshops with a group of kids from the Warehouse Circus, collaboratively designing and helping them to make some big puppets for a carnivale puppet parade during Floriade. Robin Davidson was the artistic director, bringing together the eight characters the kids had proposed into a kazoo band. We used quite a broad range of building techniques and materials, many of which the kids hadn’t had experience with before. Six of the characters were on stilts, some on extension stilts.
The Evil Gardener and Mirrorman:
The Dude (based on the Warehouse Circus’ logo), followed by Mini Me and the Meat Pie:
Mini Me and one of the Tulips:
Video clip: Click picture below to see the Puppet Parade kazoo band in action:
