{"id":1049,"date":"2009-09-04T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2009-09-04T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T21:16:07","slug":"puppets-in-melbourne-interviews-ronnie-burkett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/09\/04\/puppets-in-melbourne-interviews-ronnie-burkett\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppets in Melbourne interviews Ronnie Burkett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/billytwinkle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1050\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/09\/04\/puppets-in-melbourne-interviews-ronnie-burkett\/billytwinkle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/billytwinkle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"180,230\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"billytwinkle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/billytwinkle.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1050\" title=\"billytwinkle\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/billytwinkle.jpg\" alt=\"billytwinkle\" width=\"180\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Naomi at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetsinmelbourne.com.au\">Puppets in Melbourne<\/a> recorded a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetsinmelbourne.com.au\/faq.php\/2009\/09\/03\/pim-exclusive-interview-with-ronnie-burk\">interview<\/a> with the amazing and ever-gracious Canadian master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett a couple of days ago.\u00a0 There are many nice insights, things such as his pilgrimages to other puppeteers like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Hetherington\">Norman Hetherington<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?s=Mr+squiggle\">Mr Squiggle)<\/a> and the NIDA archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Scriven\">Peter Scriven<\/a>&#8216;s work (the Tintookies); that knowledge about scaling in making and costuming puppets is a skill that takes a long time to learn;\u00a0 that his experiments with paper mache recipes continue, superseding <a href=\"http:\/\/home.eol.ca\/~props\/papier.html\">Papier Mache Rediscovered<\/a> by many years.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie and his Theatre of Marionettes is touring Australia at the moment with his new show <em>Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy<\/em>. Don&#8217;t miss him &#8211; he is at The Arts Centre, Melbourne, until 20 September, then at the Sydney Opera House from 1 -17 October.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/01\/27\/ronnie-burkett-is-coming-to-sydney\/\"><em>Ten Days on Earth<\/em>: a real treat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/01\/27\/ronnie-burkett-is-coming-to-sydney\/\">Ronnie Burkett is coming to Sydney<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/07\/14\/ronnie-burketts-paper-mache-recipes-and-other-things\/\">Ronnie Burkett&#8217;s Paper Mache Recipes and other things<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi at Puppets in Melbourne recorded a great interview with the amazing and ever-gracious Canadian master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett a couple of days ago.\u00a0 There are many nice insights, things such as his pilgrimages to other puppeteers like Norman Hetherington (Mr Squiggle) and the NIDA archive of Peter Scriven&#8216;s work (the Tintookies); that knowledge about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puppetry","category-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}