From: manuel lutgenhorst <mlutgenhorst-AT-gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:40:55 +0700 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: [Puptcrit] Master Classes in Asian Puppetry with Amy Trompetter Dear friends, I was made aware of this list by Steve Kaplan and the Henson foundation and now I am hoping that you who read it can help promoting or even want to participate in these classes. If you need more information please ask and send email to mlutg-AT-yahoo.com Thank you so much Manuel Lutgenhorst Winter Program Dec 26, 09 - Jan 16, 2010 Master Classes in Asian Puppetry Behind the Beauty Thailand / Burma (Myanmar) / United States -"study and critical discourse of Asian traditional puppetry culminating in new collaborative performance" Application deadline: October 15th, 2009 TUITION: $1,900 Includes: Shared Housing, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner The course is limited to 8 students Send application to: mlutg-AT-yahoo.com Funded by Asian Cultural Council, supported byGitameit Music Center, Yangon Midnight Academy, Chiangmai Media Art and Design CMU Our workshops will give students a hands-on experience fabricating puppets using traditional Burmese craft. Students will also work with a U.S. faculty (Amy Trompetter) who will be in residence during the program and build a giant puppet or two using " age-old paper mache techniques". Students will be studying and comparing various puppet techniques through intensive workshops. This practical study will be accompanied by the study of the history of performance traditions and their importance in contemporary society. Research topics include; the richness of Asian theater, the profound influence of Asian tradition on Western theater practice, and the flowering of the Avant Garde movement East and West. Guest lecturers from Fine Arts, Social Science and Humanities from Chiangmai University and students from Chiang Mai are also invited to participate in the program. At the end of the three-week session, students and teachers will premier a public performance of their collaborative new work for the local community at Empty Space Chiangmai and CMU Art Museum.The opportunity to explore this lush and beautiful region of Thailand will be made possible before the end of the program. All teaching will be conducted in English with translators working with the Asian puppet masters as necessary. Throughout history, a rapt audience watches an object, speak or sing or be silent or just breathe=85. They are caught up in the object=92s thoughts and feelings. They are entering the object=92s world and cheering for its success or its downfall=85 And what of the man, woman or child behind the object as it moves to music, interacts with its world, converses=85. ? What thoughts or feelings is the person expressing through this object - questions, explorations, anger, love, outreach, exploration, teaching=85? What message is being promoted? Reaching back into the process, when the object was created (or found), what soul was sculpted (sewn, carved, stapled, molded or imagined=85) into its shape? Quoted Wendy Passmore-Godfrey, January 2007 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS Sarah Lawrence College Barnard College Long Island University California Institute of the Arts Fine Arts Chiangmai University Hobby Hut Puppet Troupe, Chiangmai Wandering Moon Performing Group, Chiangmai EMPTY SPACE CHIANGMAI www.emptyspacechiangmai.info Oraphan Lutgenhorst Managing Director 169 Moo 5 Ban Nongha, Numborluang Sunpatong, Chiangmai, THAILAND 50120 Tel/Fax: 66-53-836094 Email: mlutg-AT-yahoo.com Manuel Lutgenhorst Artistic Director 177 West 26th St. Apt 404 New York, NY 10001 Tel: 1-212-242-1481 my Theater works www.emptyspacechiangmai.info/manuel/mypage/indexth.htm excerpts www.emptyspacechiangmai.info/works _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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