- "Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer."
Learning how to work collaboratively in a puppet ensemble, including communication and creative problem-solving.
Puppetry Styles and Techniques: The different styles and techniques of puppetry, like hand puppet, marionette, rod puppet etc.
Puppet Construction and Design: The materials, tools and techniques used to build and design different types of puppets.
Puppet Manipulation: The skills, movements, and techniques used to bring puppets to life.
Scriptwriting and Storytelling: Crafting engaging narratives that can be expressed through puppetry and performance.
Performance Techniques: Developing a range of performance skills, such as voice projection, movement, and character portrayal.
Collaboration Skills: Working effectively with your team, communicating clearly, and dividing up responsibilities and duties among team members.
Ensemble Building Techniques: Building cohesion and communication within the group, understanding individual strengths and weaknesses, and building a strong team dynamic.
Customer Engagement: Engaging with an audience, creating an interactive experience, encouraging participation, and soliciting feedback.
Set and Stage Design: Setting the stage for the performance, creating an environment that enhances and supports the story and characters.
Props and Costume Design: Creating props and costumes that are authentic to the story and characters, and contribute to the overall atmosphere of the performance.
Hand puppetry: This is a type of puppetry where the puppeteer controls the movement of the puppet by using his or her hand. Most commonly seen in children's TV shows.
Marionettes: A type of puppetry where the puppet is attached to strings, which control the different parts of the puppet. This type of puppetry requires a lot of skill and precise control.
Shadow Play: Often seen in Southeast Asia, shadow puppetry involves using cutouts made of leather or cardboard, which are manipulated behind a screen with light shining through.
Glove Puppetry: This type of puppetry is similar to hand puppetry, but the puppeteer controls the puppet using a glove.
Rod Puppetry: Puppeteers use rods to control the different parts of the puppet, allowing them to create more fluid movements.
Full-Body Puppetry: Often seen in theater productions, full-body puppetry involves creating life-size puppets that actors can wear and control.
Object Puppetry: This is a type of puppetry where everyday objects are used to create puppets, as seen in the popular children's TV show, Sesame Street.
Ventriloquism: Ventriloquists use puppets that they control with their hands and voice to create the illusion that the puppet is speaking.
Muppet Style Puppetry: This type of puppetry, associated with the Jim Henson Company, involves creating expressive, colorful characters that are capable of singing, dancing, and performing complex movements.
Digital Puppetry: Uses motion capture technology to bring puppet characters to life in a digital environment.
- "The script for a puppet production is called a puppet play."
- "Puppeteers use movements from hands and arms to control devices such as rods or strings to move the body, head, limbs, and in some cases the mouth and eyes of the puppet."
- "The puppeteer sometimes speaks in the voice of the character of the puppet, while at other times they perform to a recorded soundtrack."
- "There are many different varieties of puppets, and they are made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use."
- "The simplest puppets are finger puppets, which are tiny puppets that fit onto a single finger."
- "Sock puppets... operated by inserting one's hand inside the sock, with the opening and closing of the hand simulating the movement of the puppet's 'mouth'."
- "A hand puppet or glove puppet is controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet and moves the puppet around."
- "Punch and Judy puppets are familiar examples."
- "Japanese Bunraku puppets... require two puppeteers for each puppet."
- "Marionettes are suspended and controlled by a number of strings, plus sometimes a central rod attached to a control bar held from above by the puppeteer."
- "Rod puppets... have more movement possibilities as a consequence than a simple hand or glove puppet."
- "Puppetry is a very ancient form of theatre which was first recorded in the 5th century BC in Ancient Greece."
- "Some forms of puppetry may have originated as long ago as 3000 years BC."
- "Puppetry takes many forms, but they all share the process of animating inanimate performing objects to tell a story."
- "Puppetry occurs in almost all human societies..."
- "Puppets are used... as sacred objects in rituals."
- "Puppets are used... as symbolic effigies in celebrations such as carnivals."
- "Puppets are used... as a catalyst for social and psychological change in transformative arts."
- "Puppets are used... for the purpose of entertainment through performance, as sacred objects in rituals, as symbolic effigies in celebrations such as carnivals, and as a catalyst for social and psychological change in transformative arts."