From: Vladimir Vasyagin <vasyagin-AT-hotmail.com> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:39:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Who is a puppeteer? What is a puppet? Years ago Betsy Brown used to tell her puppet classes for adults that "anyone can be a puppeteer". I'm not sure I agree, but anyone can be exposed to puppetry, can take a puppetry class and participate in a puppet theater production, just as anyone can be a brain surgeon. Alan can you tell it to everyone, please? It looks like not many people can understand it. Vladimir > From: alangregorycook-AT-msn.com > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:25:52 +0000 > Subject: [Puptcrit] Who is a puppeteer? What is a puppet? > > Years ago Betsy Brown used to tell her puppet classes for adults that "anyone can be a puppeteer". I'm not sure I agree, but anyone can be exposed to puppetry, can take a puppetry class and participate in a puppet theater production, just as anyone can be a brain surgeon. > > There are courses for art appreciation, art history and creating art, but some students are more gifted than others. > > So it is in music or puppetry or any other field of work or study or creaivity. > > If I was having brain surgery, I'd hope to get a surgeon who had been one of the better students and who knew the basics. > > In the current discussion, I was wonderng how long it would take for someone to ask if a brick could be a puppet? My brain (without the help of surgery) concluded tha the answer was affirmative, after seeing Canada's Puppet Mongers Powell perform their BRICK BROTHERS' CIRCUS using bricks. > > I saw the show at a Puppet Festival, and there was much discussion afterward, whether we had seen a puppet show or not. > > But the Powells approached their production AS PUPPETEERS, treated the bricks as puppets, thought about it as puppeteers. Non-puppeteers would have created a different sort of result. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hobey Ford > Sent: Friday, January 8, 2010 8:02 AM > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] is motion capture puppetry? > > I'm going to apply for a robotic surgery job. The pay will be better, > oh but there is that techicality of a medical degree. I suppose > though we'll let the robotic surgeons become puppeteers, They do > often "perform" surgery to a gallery of observers so there is an > audience. Everybody can be a puppeteer! ;o) > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Bell, John <john.bell-AT-uconn.edu> wrote: > > By this definition "Avatar" is a puppet show, and all motion capture is puppetry... > > > > Dr. John T. Bell > > Director > > Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry > > University of Connecticut > > 6 Bourn Place Unit 5212 > > Storrs, Connecticut=EF=BF=BD 06269-5212 > > office: 860 486 0806 > > cell: 617 599 3250 > > www.bimp.uconn.edu > > > > To make a contribution to the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, please go to > > https://secure.ga4.org/01/uconn_foundation_giving, and select "Ballard Puppetry Museum" from the "Purpose" list. =EF=BF=BDThanks for your support! > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [mailto:puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org] On Behalf Of Robert Rogers > > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:24 PM > > To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > > Subject: [Puptcrit] is motion capture puppetry? > > > > I agree with Hobey. =EF=BF=BDCall me old fashioned but I like Bil Baird's > > definition: "A puppet is an inanimate figure that is made to move by human > > effort before an audience." > > > > Robert Rogers > > > > _______________________________________________ > > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > _______________________________________________ > > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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