Last weekend the Tate Modern in London hosted a new production of Mori el Merma, which was first performed in 1978, and emerged out of a collaboration between the surrealist painter Joan Miró and La Claca, an experimental theatre troupe from Barcelona, headed by Joan Baixas. In the new revision,
‘… Joan Baixas evokes the […]
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Welfare State International comes to an end
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on May 26th, 2006
John Fox, the artistic director of the renowned celebratory street theatre company, Welfare State International - ‘eyes on stalks, not bums on seats” - explains how bureacracy kills the creative spirit, and why he is going solo.
‘The final straw? The ‘hot work’ permit for a bonfire in a field.
Had we swept the floor, and […]
Some thoughts on the miners’ interview
Posted in media, miscellaneous, news on May 23rd, 2006
I watched the Ch. 9 interview with the two rescued Beaconsfield miners on Sunday night, and far from being bored, was quite fascinated. Some thoughts:
I was rather touched to watch how they were still taking care of each other. If one was struggling to keep his emotions in check, the other stepped in to relate […]
Mimi has added three new robots to her robot family. Some are more like pillows, while others, like this guy, are fully articulated, but they are all really cool.
Some large pink snake-skin shoes I made recently for Jigsaw Theatre Company’s production Little Brother Big Sister, design by Imogen Keen. I had fun with the curly thing at the back.
Also at Flickr today is swestdahl’s photoset of images taken at XPT 2006, Xperimental Puppet Theater, which is on this weekend at the Centre for Performing Arts in Atlanta. There is a brief description of the 8 pieces here, and the XPT blog is giving a nice look at the whole process behind the […]
Skip the Budgie at Flickr has a cool photoset of action images taken during a performance of the Pickled Image show, The Chatterbox. There is more information, pictures and storyboard illustrations here on their site. They make and use various styles of puppetry and puppets. One of the styles I like is where […]
My puppetry colleague Samantha Ferris has more than 20 cool puppets that she would like to sell - hand puppets, large rod puppets, and some flat puppets. They are perfectly suited to the professional puppeteer or anyone interested in experimenting with puppets to create a magical piece of theatre.
They were all […]
The irreverence and exhuberence in this classic Sesame Street video clip is such fun. I love it! (via Project Puppet)
Its no longer available :(
Emmanuel Bourgeau: sculpting the Sultan’s Elephant
Posted in craft, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre on May 14th, 2006
The find of my week was the discovery that Emmanuel Bourgeau, a sculptor in Plogonnec, has a small gallery of photos of the construction and carving of the huge elephant and girl in Royal
de Luxe’s spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, which paraded the streets of
London last week. Isn’t the net wonderful? I’ve added this link […]