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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
> >
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