Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:27:50 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Kathy Foley <kfoley-AT-ucsc.edu>
Subject: [Puptcrit] Southeast Asian Mask exhibit at CPA


For those of you in Atlanta next week an exhibit of Masks and Puppets 
from Southeast Asia which I put together will be opening at the 
Center for Puppetry Arts on July 8.  Mask and puppet performance are 
co-relatives of each other in Southeast Asia so mask dancers are 
thought of as wayang topeng (masked puppets) and the icopnography and 
rules of performance are taken from the puppetry.

I will be giving a talk at the opening on July 8 and discussing some 
of the cosmological ideas behind and why puppetry/solo mask 
performance (puppeteers and mask dancers may be the same persohn) is 
conceptually the superior art in this part of the world.  If you are 
in the area, please drop in. The exhibit will be up for a while, so 
if you get to Atlanta, check it out and share any feedback on the 
ideas.

best,

-- 
Kathy Foley
Professor, Theatre Arts
Editor, Asian Theatre Journal
J-15 Theatre Arts
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
  tel. (831) 459-4189
fax (831) 459-3552
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