{"id":54,"date":"2004-08-05T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:42:59","slug":"the-space-between-by-peter-j-wilson-and-geoffrey-milne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/08\/05\/the-space-between-by-peter-j-wilson-and-geoffrey-milne\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Space Between&#8217; by Peter J. Wilson and  Geoffrey Milne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to reading Peter Wilson and Geoffrey Milne&#8217;s book &#8216;The Space Between, The Art of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Australia&#8217;.  The book has just been published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currency.com.au\/\">Currency Press<\/a>, and was launched last Tuesday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicartscentre.com.au\/\">Arts Centre<\/a> in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;A history of puppetry and image related theatre in Australia, written from extensive research but which also offers a personal view from one of Australia&#8217;s most experienced and imaginative puppeteers, Peter J Wilson. The book includes practical information on how puppeteers go about their work and documents a host of innovative companies and individuals who helped shape puppetry in Australia in its broadest sense; and looks at how puppetry has influenced, and been a part of, major theatre company&#8217;s programming.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2002, when Peter held an Arts Centre Senior Creative Fellowship at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vca.unimelb.edu.au\/\">Victorian College of the Arts<\/a>, he also brought together the celebration that was the first National Puppetry Summit , and he has gone on to develop the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060205124548\/http:\/\/www.vca.unimelb.edu.au:80\/production\/courses.html\">first Australian tertiary course in the art of puppetry<\/a> at the VCA.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Milne is head of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has worked in theatre since 1967 in many capacities, especially as a lighting designer, and since the mid 1980s as a theatre reviewer for print and radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The  Space Between&#8217; is available from all good bookshops, and retails for $49.95. I&#8217;ll have to check when I get my copy, but I think the cover photograph was taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffbusby.com\/\">Jeff Busby<\/a>, and the featured puppets were made by Rob Matson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to reading Peter Wilson and Geoffrey Milne&#8217;s book &#8216;The Space Between, The Art of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Australia&#8217;. The book has just been published by Currency Press, and was launched last Tuesday at the Arts Centre in Melbourne. &#8216;A history of puppetry and image related theatre in Australia, written from [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,4,14,33],"tags":[24,1359,138,1355,1365,139],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-theatre","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-peter-j-wilson","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-the-space-between"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}