Steven Ritz-Barr
Upcoming events (to be determined)
PUPPET WORKSHOP (in English)
LOCATION: DATTERODE, GERMANY
- small group of participants (5-10)
- for one week in summer of 2024
- LEAD BY MASTER PUPPETEER STEVEN RITZ-BARR
Hands-on operation of numerous puppets (around 200) exhibited at the museum, including:
- marionettes
- hand puppets
- rod puppets
- shadow puppets
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Workshop curriculum (tentative)
GENERAL CONCEPTS for Puppetry and Art
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What makes a concept “Puppetic or Puppet-ish”?
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How the concept/idea is communicable to ‘others’ ?
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Conceiving the style of an Idea.
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Finding the strengths of Concept, then test it with various Puppets.
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What makes each puppet come alive?
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Projection into a wooden character.
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EXERCISES for the Puppet Operator
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Finger tips to toes, inside and outside
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Movement work on human emotions associated with that of the Puppet concept:
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push, pull, direct, distance (how far away is human is from the object?)
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slow to fast, small to large- dimension, proportion, velocity,- with only hands and body.
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Vertical and horizontal movements
EXPERIMENTAL PUPPETRY:
INTRODUCTION to Movement of the 7 Great Passions
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Their expression through sound and movement with any and all forms of Puppetry:
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calm
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fear
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anger
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joy
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envy
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greed
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jealousy
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CHARACTER & STORY development
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What constitutes a believable puppet
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Character Introductions and Interrogations
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Through Manipulation Techniques (Movement), get to know the puppet:
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Is the story the puppet? Or is the puppet delivering the story?
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FILM PROGRAMS
Group Screening of Puppet Films by Classics in Miniature, puppet demos and Q&A:
THE LEGEND OF JOAN OF ARC
QUIXOTE
FAUST
LORELEI
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