Puppeteers of America Workshop I

       Yngvild Aspeli - The Double Presence of the Actor-Puppeteer

       WED, 7/19, SCIENCE 104, Both sessions

       THURS,7/20, SCIENCE 104, Both sessions (Total of four sessions)

       During the workshop, we will look at how to give life to the puppets through 

       the precision of gestures and movements, and how to “write” a theatrical

       situation through play and improvisations. We will focus on the relation

       between actor and puppet, and look at how this relationship can be a

       “dramaturgical key”. Why is it interesting to tell a story using puppets? What

       can the puppet allow us to express in a different way than an actor does? We

       will work around the themes of presence and absence: understanding how the

       puppet can help make concrete an emotion or a state, and allow us to express

       both human and social themes. A central part of the work will be how to

       combine being both an actor and a puppeteer, and “chorus-manipulation”;

       how a group of actors together can make a theatrical situation and at the same

       time give life to the puppet. The participants will work with puppets in three

       how a group of actors together can make a theatrical situation and at the same

       puppets.