From: Stephen Kaplin <skactw-AT-tiac.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:29:04 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] dreams


  I have found over the years that the traffic between dreams and 
puppets is both ways-- over the years my puppet work has  more and more 
been affecting my dreams. Now, whenever I am in major crunch mode. I 
dream of working up on the Bread and Puppet farm during the run-up to a 
Domestic Resurrection Circus.

The dream state we all experience as individuals when  cocooned in 
sleep has a lot in common with puppet performance. Puppetry performance 
often becomes a kind of collective dreaming process- a public working 
out of the shadowy aspects of the larger cultural landscape that the 
waking (read "main-stream") social life represses and submerges.

I think the science of dreaming and the art of puppetry make great 
bedfellows.

Stephen
On Apr 6, 2008, at 6:53 PM, morgan eckert wrote:

> re: the question on dreams...
>
> my dreams have affected my puppet/set work tremendously.  everything
> from storyline to character to sounds.  i find that using my dreams as
> inspiration somehow allows tomorrows dreams to be even more vivid.
> like kindling on a fire.
>
> im not sure i could come up with anything during the day that is quite
> as interesting as what i cook up in the night...
>
> -- 
> morgan eckert
> www.morganeckert.com
> 802.233.7615
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