One of the teachers invited me to work with 40 children, aged 13- 14. Strating from scratch, with no idea about puppets they wanted to make parodies of well known fairy tales. Time was however very short: 2 months. I guided both the children and the teachers -who continued the work in my absence- in all the aspects of puppetry. Work included building different kinds and sizes of rod and hand puppets , learning techniques of animation, acting ,moving both their bodies and the ones of the puppets, correcting the use of voice, body and gesture...and guiding the direction of their plays.Their ideas for parodies were brilliant, the children never lost their enthusiasm and their texts were interesting, sarcastic and full of humor.
Here is a album of pictures.
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