{"id":188,"date":"2006-02-01T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-08-24T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T07:58:20","slug":"shaun-tans-website-and-aquasapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/02\/01\/shaun-tans-website-and-aquasapiens\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Tan’s website and Aquasapiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shaun Tan<\/a> now has his own website<\/a>. It looks relatively new. It’s great to see a number of illustrations under each picture book listing<\/a>, and read his thoughtful and friendly commentary. I was also delighted to see some images from the puppetry-based theatre production of The Red Tree<\/a>, which was produced as part of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre\u2019s \u2018Out of the Box\u2019 festival for children in 2004. I had heard about this wonderful fish puppet<\/a> on the grapevine. There are also some in-theatre pictures<\/a> of some of our puppets<\/a> for Jigsaw Theatre’s production of The Lost Thing.<\/p>\n

One project that was unknown to me before, is Aquasapiens<\/a>. Tan was commissioned by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre<\/a> in Fremantle, WA, to design large-scale puppets for a street theatre event as part of the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival. The director was Philip Mitchell, the puppet maker Jiri Zmitko and sound designer\/composer Lee Buddle. These creatures are fabulous! Here are drawings of the Yellow Naut<\/del>‘<\/a> and ‘Shrimpy’<\/a>. I also love this<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aquasapiens is going to be part of the Adelaide Fringe <\/del>in February and March, and is available to perform at schools from February 27 to March 10.
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Apparently Spare Parts will also be adapting another of Tan’s books, The Arrival, which is about migration and is due to be published in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

updated links 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shaun Tan now has his own website. It looks relatively new. It’s great to see a number of illustrations under each picture book listing, and read his thoughtful and friendly commentary. I was also delighted to see some images from the puppetry-based theatre production of The Red Tree, which was produced as part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8,193,4,14,15],"tags":[423,1355,1365,111,77],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-illustration","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-street-theatre","tag-aquasapiens","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-shaun-tan","tag-spare-parts-puppet-theatre"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}