File puptcrit/puptcrit.1004, message 139


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:53:46 -0400
From: Geoffrey Navias <geoff-AT-openhandtheater.org>
To: puptcrit puptcrit <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: [Puptcrit] So whose work did you see that got you going in puppetry?


I grew up with out TV and so was not exposed to any of the puppetry in that
medium.  As a ten year old in Boston (1965) I saw a touring Korean acrobatic
troupe (I can best describe it as a cross between Chinese Opera & Chinese
Circus with a plot) which caught my imagination.  The movie Lili was
probably the most direct puppetry aha moment I had as a kid. Much later when
I was starting to explore puppetry, seeing Joseph Papp's production of
Agamemnon in Central Park  (maybe around 1977) really was quite a remarkable
theater production and ritual.  I had finished creating "Olives of Harvest"
a Javanese styled shadow performance with a student gamelan out of the
musicology department of Oneonta State University when I was introduced to
Bread and Puppet Theater by Dick Siegfried.  Peter Shuman and all the
variety of folks through Bread and Puppet certainly have been an amazing
force and theater, informing and influencing my work.  The anti-war movement
through the 60s and 70s has also been a significant influence in my choice
of work, aesthetics, and ongoing work.

Geoffrey Navias  


On 4/4/10 10:27 PM, "Bil Bug" <thatpuppetguy-AT-q.com> wrote:

> Steve mentioned Burr Tillstrom's hand ballet of the Berlin Wall on "That Was
> The Week That Was". I, too, remember seeing that piece and being very moved.
> It was amazing to me as a kid that someone could use their hands to create
> something with such emotional power. Another piece in that complex puzzle
> that makes us who we are and forms what we do . . .
> 
> Wayne 
> 
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