{"id":283,"date":"2006-10-18T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-01-02T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:10:15","slug":"warehouse-circus-carnivale-puppet-parade-at-floriade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2006\/10\/18\/warehouse-circus-carnivale-puppet-parade-at-floriade\/","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse Circus: Carnivale Puppet Parade at Floriade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/sets\/72157594320614131\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/118\/265434119_96e060a02b.jpg\" alt=\"Resting\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floriadeaustralia.com\">Floriade<\/a>, Canberra&#8217;s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend.  My biggest scale project was taking workshops with a group of kids from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warehousecircus.org.au\/circus.php?page=home\">Warehouse Circus<\/a>, collaboratively designing and helping them to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/sets\/72157594320614131\/\">some big puppets for a carnivale puppet parade<\/a> during Floriade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robindavidson.co-operista.com\">Robin Davidson<\/a> was the artistic director, bringing together the eight characters the kids had proposed (The Dude (from the circus logo), the Evil Gardener, two tulips, The Pie, Mirrorman, Mini Me, and a pirate) into a kazoo band.<\/p>\n<p>We used quite a broad range of building techniques and materials, many of which the kids hadn&#8217;t had experience with before. Six of the characters were on stilts, some on extension stilts, and I was really impressed with how well the kids took on the physical and mental challenges of performing the characters, and the level of confidence they developed.<\/p>\n<p><center>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/pokkariPlayer.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/syndication\/write_player?skin=js&amp;posts_id=91637&amp;source=3&amp;autoplay=true&amp;file_type=flv\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"blip_movie_content_91637\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Hil-WarehouseCircusCarnivalePuppetParadeAtFloriade2006813.avi\" onclick=\"play_blip_movie_91637(); return false;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Hil-WarehouseCircusCarnivalePuppetParadeAtFloriade2006813.avi.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"blip_description\">Video clip: Click picture to see the Warehouse Circus Carnivale Puppet Parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months most of my time has been taken up with a number of projects to do with Floriade, Canberra&#8217;s month-long annual spring flower festival, which finished last weekend. 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