Today I was back at the egg for another puppetry workshop with our course leader, Laura.
Among conversations about our puppetry assessment in January, we learned how to create and manipulate puppets made out of newspapers and bin bags...
It took me about 5 minutes to realize what she meant... bin bags = garbage bags. Duh, Jacq!
A lot of these workshops are about moving our puppet around; it is such a special art form and takes a ton of practice to make sure the way you are moving the puppet comes across as believable. We worked individually to discover easy and difficult ways for our puppet to move before we shared them with a partner and moved them around the room together.
Alternating between those two realities, we created scenes with our puppet and our partner's puppets for a half hour before sharing them with the class. My puppet had zero muscle in it's legs, so it preferred to slide/shimmy on the ground on it's huge belly. My partner's used it's short arms to pull it's heavy body before realizing it moved better swimming, and we contorted it's body back and forth in the air.
For my homework, I am creating a puppet made of different material from the puppet my partner Jeanette is creating. Together, we will workshop them together so we can present a short performance for the class when this project is due in November.
So far, we've made puppets with newspapers, plastic grocery bags, bin bags, and trash. What do you think I should use to make my puppet for my November assessment?
- Miss Jacq
Among conversations about our puppetry assessment in January, we learned how to create and manipulate puppets made out of newspapers and bin bags...
It took me about 5 minutes to realize what she meant... bin bags = garbage bags. Duh, Jacq!
A lot of these workshops are about moving our puppet around; it is such a special art form and takes a ton of practice to make sure the way you are moving the puppet comes across as believable. We worked individually to discover easy and difficult ways for our puppet to move before we shared them with a partner and moved them around the room together.
Alternating between those two realities, we created scenes with our puppet and our partner's puppets for a half hour before sharing them with the class. My puppet had zero muscle in it's legs, so it preferred to slide/shimmy on the ground on it's huge belly. My partner's used it's short arms to pull it's heavy body before realizing it moved better swimming, and we contorted it's body back and forth in the air.
For my homework, I am creating a puppet made of different material from the puppet my partner Jeanette is creating. Together, we will workshop them together so we can present a short performance for the class when this project is due in November.
So far, we've made puppets with newspapers, plastic grocery bags, bin bags, and trash. What do you think I should use to make my puppet for my November assessment?
- Miss Jacq