File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1997/97-03-11.140, message 219


Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 07:16:53 -0800
From: Steve Axtell <steve-AT-axtell.com>
Subject: Re: Dancing with a puppet


At 06:06 PM 3/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-03-07 12:45:01 EST, you write:
>
><< Actually, she wants to be side-to-side. The one version of this that I saw
> was with the puppeteer inbetween two puppets. This way they balanced each
> other. But she has only one puppet. How should this work? If a rod of some
> sort is attached from one of her legs to a puppet leg, she obviously must
> keep one leg in front at all times. But I also don't know how to actually do
> this rod. If I make it a "L" shape I can keep the rod from drooping down.
> But I don't see a clear way to keep the rod from rotating on her leg.
> 
>   Any ideas?
> 
> Joe Dunfee
> Miami, Florida USA


Joe, I'm not sure if this is applicable but you don't have to have straight
rods from both feet.  With the dancing puppet on her left side - both of
them facing the audience, you could attach the left leg of the puppet to her
left leg with a bent rod that bends back around the puppets right leg.  And
the right legs could have a bent rod that bends around the person's left leg
either in front or behind.  I've not tried it but it's worth considering.  

In this example PL = Puppet Left PR = Puppet right - DL= Dancer Left DR Dancer Right


                      __________
                     |          |
              PL    PR  DL     DR
               |________|

Cross over and range of motion seems like an issue to work out.

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