File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9908, message 412


Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:54:21 -0400
From: Preston Foerder <slovpete-AT-telesouth1.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Maybe..........



Hartz wrote:

> Maybe............
>
> a) Puppets are out of style
> b) We're just "old children" trying to relive childhood.
> c)  A "dying art" is an understatement.
> or.............
> a) We're actors who never made it.
> b) Singers who never made it.
> c) Directors who never made it.
> or.............
> a) We're Puppeteers......pure and simple.
> b)  We're extremely good at many skills.
> c)  We're happy just being puppeteers....that's all.
>
> Conrad Hartz

LmBD1-AT-aol.com wrote:

> I think you said it all!!!   Lyn

You know, I was going to ignore this until Lyn seconded it. The problem
with a performing art is that it is an evolutionary process.  "We're
happy just being puppeteers....that's all." is not good enough.  It has
to be "We're happy just being puppeteers....that's all." and people
enjoy and/or are interested and/or educated and/or are moved by watching
it.  Those who don't fall under the first and/or one or several of the
others, hopefully, quickly go extinct by the will of the audience.
Unfortunately, some are too stubborn to do so and hurt the rest of us by
their presence.

And puppeteers are not actors, singers, or directors who never made it
but performers who, whether instinctually or by training, have
incorporated those skills into their performance as a puppeteer.

Preston




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