Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:04:09 -0400 From: Andrew Periale <perryalley-AT-rscs.net> Subject: Re: PUPT: Puppet types: names, + Lexicon of puppetry terms > > I hope more of you will have the opportunity to observe live Bunraku, and > Vietnamese Water puppetry, and traditional Burattini of Italy for ideas to > broaden and expand your own work. > > Hear, hear! Both for myself and others. > And if you can't go see these forms, you can always READ about them in Puppetry International magazine. To find out more (shameless self-promotion), go to the UNIMA-USA website: http://www.unima-usa.org and go to the publications page. By the way, the upcoming issue is about Gender. or, as I like to call it: the SEX issue. If any of you have a show which includes puppet sex, and you have a good picture of same, we still have a little room for a brief inclusion, namely, a photo with a paragraph putting the photo into context-- the why and how of including this material in your show. please write me off-list. So, bunraku, shmunraku, nobody took any notice of my "marionnette portee" proposal. Perhaps it is because there are no well-known French masters employing this technique by whose very mastery (we hope) our work might be somehow elevated in our audiences' minds, as when we say: I do "bunraku-style" puppetry ("Oooo, he must be good!") Perhaps we should describe our work as "Bunraku LITE!", or "McBunraku." In fact, it might not be a bad idea to do an issue of the magazine called "Bunraku for the Complete Idiot.," in which we showcase every instance of "bunraku-style" puppetry we can find in order to learn what, if anything, they have to do with the Japanese classical form. I realize that this may read as sarcastic, but I actually think it could be fascinating. After all, WE do "bunraku-style" puppetry . . . well, sort of. Andrew Periale Editor, Puppetry International --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- Personal replies to: Andrew Periale <perryalley-AT-rscs.net> --- List replies to: puptcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Admin commands to: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- Archives at: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons
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