From: "B. Shur" <mr_utamaro-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: Re: a hello and a help me please...
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 04:49:40 -0400


Joseph Campbell (spelling may be awry) has some amazing books centering on 
mythology and ritual, but with some great stuff to say about 
costume/puppet/masks in ritual. Check out Masks of God or Hero of a Thousand 
Faces.


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B Shur
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but not going out in it!!"- Zippy



----Original Message Follows----
From: Brently <brentlymd-AT-black-hole.com>
Reply-To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: PUPT: Re: a hello and a help me please...
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:37:10 -0500

I'm mostly a mask maker, so I approach puppets through masks.  What this
means is quite involved, and I have only a few moments, but to distill the
thought: masks reflect the spirit, puppets the soul.  I have been working on
"Trojan Horse" theatre that brings the folk in as entertainment and then
reveals something hidden... something that addresses human suffering.

To get to what you're inquiring about --> "the ways puppetry has been used
in various cultures with regards to health/healing/disease, etc." <-- I'm
also an anthropologist, and when I was doing my honors work I tripped over
the medium of Theatre Anthropology.  If you haven't discovered this yet, do
check out the work of Richard Sheckner (spell?), Eugenio Barba, Victor
Turner, and of course Peter Brook.  They have extensively researched and
developed theatre as a world voice and how it works within and without
society, culture, and the individual.

As to the specificity of using puppets to heal, I'll tell you that I have
personally worked with artists who have found a tremendous release through
puppetry.  One friend has literally gone from nearly neurotically shy to
being quite open and outgoing by working in large body puppets.  There is
also a lot of well documented work using neutral masks, and the head cloth
masks, that enable an actor to go beyond personal ego and explore the nature
of the geni-human.

Must go, but hope to continue this conversation on the list.

Brently Michael Davis, Director
BrentlyMasks! Studios
"Clothing For Your Face. Performance From the Gut."
http://home.earthlink.net/~brentlymd


----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily DeCola" <emzwemz-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 8:48 PM
Subject: PUPT: a hello and a help me please...


 > Hello everyone,
 > this list is fantastic! I just discovered it/you and
 > spent the last hour copying and pasting tips and
 > incredibly useful information. wow.
 >
 > I'm writing this time to I'm a budding puppeteer and
 > puppet maker (working on show #2) in montreal, as well
 > as a university student -- and I'm  currently working
 > on a reasearch project about "puppetry and the body."
 > As this is technically an anthropology project, rather
 > than a theatrical one, I'm interested in resources
 > which specifically deal with the ways puppetry has
 > been used in various cultures with regards to
 > health/healing/disease, etc.
 >
 > any thoughts?
 >
 > Thanks in advance...
 > Emily DeCola
 >
 >
 >
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