The strength of the puppet
- workshop
An exploration of the possibilities of the puppet as a powerful theatrical genre.
The puppeteer does not disappear behind the puppet; their presence on stage is an integral part of the performance. It is the relationship between the two performers that interests us: the way in which the manipulation of the puppet affects the audience, how the roles of the puppet and the puppeteer are interchangeable (who serves who?) and their differences in “body language”.
The participants will work with puppets from the Stuffed Puppet company. They will learn how to manipulate them and will develop short scenes they’that wiill be presented publicly at the end of the workshop.
"The Power of the Puppet" Workshop led by Neville Tranter at Cifas (suite...). September 2012. from CIFAS on Vimeo.
Neville Tranter
Neville Tranter (1955, Australia) completed his drama studies and founded the Stuffed Puppet Theater in 1976. Two years later, he moved to Amsterdam, where he developed his own style puppet theater for adults, which he continues to practice today. In a brutal and uncompromising manner, yet with a distinctive poetic sensibility, he confronts the audience’s fears, dreams and desires, which he personifies through puppets that are often life-size. Combining minimalist staging with sophisticated lightning and sound, and making use of both the theater’s oldest devices and the very latest cutting-edge technology, Neville Tranter, alone on stage with his puppets (and a number of assistants behinde the scences), raises images that the audience will not forget so soon. His down-to-earth humor, his seriousness and his virtuosity have won over those who assumed that puppets had nothing to offer them.
Neville Tranter has been teaching puppet art for years and was invited by the greatest european drama schools.
Illustration : Pierre Piech
Cifas offers contemporary artists to illustrate its communication. Pierre Piech illustrated the workshop The strengh of the puppet.
Pierre Piech was born to Polish parents in Warsaw in 1978. After spending two years in Algeria, where he learnt French, he attended school in France and went on to study visual arts et ESA Saint-Luc in Belgium. He now lives in Marseille. His visal style is inspired by emotions and faces, with an Eastern European tenderness.