From: Anne Schaefer <anne-AT-tanglewoodmarionettes.com> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:24:42 -0500 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Cannon Hill Puppet Auction > > I am very intrigued by the "hoop to the puppeteer's head" control. > Anybody > care to elaborate how it works? > > > Mathieu, David Currell's book Puppets and Puppet Theatre has a picture on pg. 24 of three puppeteers manipulating three of the Blundall puppets from the production The Pomegranate Princess. The image shows the puppeteers wearing circular hoops on their heads - worn like crowns. The hoops appear to have four strings attached, two of which go down to the puppet's head, and two of which go down to the puppet's shoulders. The strings are attached to the hoop "crowns" at four equidistant points - two in front, roughly at the puppeteer's temples, and two in back behind the puppeteer's ears. I assume that head movements on the part of the puppeteers will translate into corresponding movements in the puppets. The puppeteers each hold two rods which control their puppet's arms. The puppets are all a little under waist-height to the puppeteers, and are held directly in front of and very close to the puppeteers' bodies. Anne _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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