Making Puppets Come Alive: How to Learn and Teach Hand Puppetry

Engler, Larry, and Fijan, Carol

ISBN 10: 0486293785 / ISBN 13: 9780486293783

Editore: Dover Publications, 1997

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Unlike other performing arts, puppetry is perhaps the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment that will appeal to audiences of all ages ? in homes, in theaters, and in classrooms.This lucid, easy-to-follow book was specifically conceived to teach beginners how to bring a hand puppet to life and how, with practice, to develop the skills needed to mount an amateur puppet show ? complete with staging, costumes, and special effects. Award-winning puppeteers Larry Engler and Carol Fijan provide ingenious finger, wrist, and arm exercises that are crucial for creating a full working range of puppet motions and emotions. They also cover the elements of good puppet theatrical technique: speech, voice use, and synchronization; stage deportment and interactions; improvisation, dramatic conflict, role characterization, and more.Every detail is clearly explained and beautifully illustrated with photographs, specific chapters being devoted to the use of props, puppet voices and movements, the construction of simple stages and lighting effects, and much more.

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• Titolo: Making Puppets Come Alive: How to Learn and Teach Hand Puppetry
• Editore: Dover Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486293785
• ISBN 13: 9780486293783
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 10 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Theater

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Riassunto

Unlike other performing arts, puppetry is perhaps the only art form in which directing, acting, writing, designing, sculpture, and choreography are combined. In effect, the performer is creating an artistic entertainment that will appeal to audiences of all ages — in homes, in theaters, and in classrooms.
This lucid, easy-to-follow book was specifically conceived to teach beginners how to bring a hand puppet to life and how, with practice, to develop the skills needed to mount an amateur puppet show — complete with staging, costumes, and special effects. Award-winning puppeteers Larry Engler and Carol Fijan provide ingenious finger, wrist, and arm exercises that are crucial for creating a full working range of puppet motions and emotions. They also cover the elements of good puppet theatrical technique: speech, voice use, and synchronization; stage deportment and interactions; improvisation, dramatic conflict, role characterization, and more.
Every detail is clearly explained and beautifully illustrated with photographs, specific chapters being devoted to the use of props, puppet voices and movements, the construction of simple stages and lighting effects, and much more. A splendid addition to the literature on this subject, Making Puppets Come Alive is "the best book on hand puppetry we've seen." —The Whole Kids Catalog.

Contenuti

Introduction What Is Puppetry? What Is a Puppet? Hand Puppets Finger Movements Wrist Movements Arm Movements An Exercise for Basic Movements Pantomime The Use of Props Puppet Voices How Should a Puppet Move When Speaking? Improvisation and Conflict Suggested Improvisations Mouth Puppets Critique Preparing an End-of-Term Production The Construction of Felt Puppets The Construction of Simple Mouth Puppets Simple Stages Simple Lighting Appendix: An Outline for Lesson Plan Bibliography of Recommended Books List of Puppetry Organizations