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 --- Personal replies to: Preston Foerder <slovpete-AT-telesouth1.com> --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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