From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mathieu_Ren=E9?= <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:21:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] UNIMA-USA's 40 under 40


Our local association just published its yearly magazine, and the theme was 
very similar:
companies and performers in their thirties.

At the end of the magazine, some young companies are mentionned, to show 
where the future might be headed. At first, I got a bit worried about the 
fact that only one independant builder was mentionned.

I kept my cool and asked about it during our next board meeting.
I was glad to hear that the next issue was all about the rest of the 
practitionners.

For a while, it has seemed to me that companies (everywhere) get the 
spotlight, made easier by the official status, the nice clear box they can 
be categorized into, while freelancers (builders, independant filmmakers, 
freelance performers) or people who don't yet have their own show, get left 
in the dark.  Some of us freelancers are only that because we haven't yet 
been hired by a company. We freelance because it's the only way to continue. 
If often feels like we get hired just as labor, when I see the lack of 
recognition in publications (some articles don't mention the puppetmakers or 
individual performers) and events.

I see newcommer amateur shows with questionnable quality get articles 
written about them, when freelance colleagues with years of experience, and 
consistent quality, remain obscure.
The most talented-skilled puppet builder I know for his mechanical 
engineering for puppets and sets is unknown to the public. Yet, he was 
responsible for many great effects for world renowned shows. Doubtless lots 
of you have seen his results. I'm not naming him here because I don't think 
he's in it for the fame. He's a shy person, he probably likes remaining in 
the workshop. And its not my place to rob him of that.

Just as in visual arts, when BIG size is automatically more impressive to 
the public (and too many peers who should know better), a performing company 
title automatically makes you legit in people's, and institutions' eyes.

Public Perception is like an oil-based clay that needs to be heat-softened 
in order to change it's current shape. Otherwise it has a tendency to remain 
mostly static.








companies who
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hobey Ford" <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] UNIMA-USA's 40 under 40


> It is an accomplishment indeed.  Bonnie and Andrew Periale and the
> magazine's contributors do fine work and we are lucky to have them
> dedicating so much of their energy to "Puppetry International".  We
> can be proud to have such journals not to mention The P of A journal
> which is outstanding as well.
>
> All puppeteers need encouragment.
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