Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects
BELL, John
2001
Autor(es): BELL, John
Título: Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects
Publicação: New York: New York University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. Previously published as a special issue of The Drama Review (Vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 1999)
ISBN: 0-262-52293-4
Assunto(s):
Marionetas
Máscaras
Teatro de Marionetas -- História e Crítica
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword
Entertainment, Spectacle, Crime: Puppetry in the Year 2000, JOHN BELL – 1
Introduction - Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects at the End of the Century, JOHN BELL; From the beginning, masks, puppets, and performing objects have been central to performance. In his introduction to this special issue of TDR, guest editor John Bell surveys the field. - 5
A Puppet Tree: A Model for the Field of Puppet Theatre, STEPHEN KAPLIN; Kaplin proposes a new theory of puppet theatre based on distance and ratio-where distance is the degree of separation between performer and object, and ratio the number of objects compared to the number of performers. – 18
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King, an interview by RICHARD SCHECHNER; with her Broadway smash hit The Lion King, Taymor became one of America’s most popular puppeteers. Her work is grounded in Indonesia, mime training with Jacques Lecoq, and her own decades-long experiments. In this interview, Taymor discusses the overall trajectory of her stage and film work. – 26
What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets and Performing Objects?, PETER SCHUMANN; Peter Schumann, the grandmaster of American puppetry, tells some of what he knows about puppets and performing objects. – 46
The End of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Bread and Puppet Theater and Counterculture Performance in the 1990s, JOHN BELL; The Bread and Puppet’s Domestic Resurrection Circus emerged within the counterculture ay' the 1960s and ‘70s and continued through 1998. Bell places this long-running event within the cultural ecology of Vermont and the U.S.A. – 52
Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player 71, MARK SUSSMAN; In historical perspective, Sussman considers the evolution of “automatons”-mechanical and electrical performing objects. These machines could make music, imitate human and animal movements, answer questions, and play chess. – 71
Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre, PYOTR BOGATYREV; This key historical and theoretical document connecting Czech and Russian puppet and folk theatres is translated into English for the first time. Bogatyrev opened a whole new area of semiotic studies. – 87
Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture, EDWARD PORTNOY; A popular, activist, New York-based hand-puppet theatre of the 1920s and ‘30s, Modicut sharply satirized the clash between tradition and modernity marking Yiddish life in New York. – 105
Articulations: The History of All Things, THEODORA SKIPITARES; Noted for her extraordinarily detailed creations, in this photo essay, Skipitares maps the development if her art from 1977 to the present. – 125
If Gandhi Could Fly...: Dilemmas and Directions in Shadow Puppetry of India, SALIL SINGH; What happens when the government commissions new puppet plays based on the life of Mohandas Gandhi, India’s revered “mahatma” (great soul)? Can the recently sainted compete with the ancient heroes of the Mah bh rata or R m yana? – 144
Rediscovering Mask Performance in Peru: Gustavo Boada, Maskmaker with Yuyachkani, an interview by JOHN BELL; In an interview with John Bell, maskmaker Gustavo Boada discusses how the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani has recuperated traditional Andean performance aesthetics. – 159
The Art of Puppetry in the Age of Media Production, STEVE TILLIS; the microchip has replaced clockworks as the intelligence driving performing objects. What of virtual animation-the magical CGI ’s or computer graphics images? Tillis considers this question from Walter Benjamin through to Waldo-an “ergonomic-gonio-kineti-telemetric device.” – 172
Biographies – 186
Index – 189
Autor(es): BELL, John
Título: Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects
Publicação: New York: New York University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. Previously published as a special issue of The Drama Review (Vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 1999)
ISBN: 0-262-52293-4
Assunto(s):
Marionetas
Máscaras
Teatro de Marionetas -- História e Crítica
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword
Entertainment, Spectacle, Crime: Puppetry in the Year 2000, JOHN BELL – 1
Introduction - Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects at the End of the Century, JOHN BELL; From the beginning, masks, puppets, and performing objects have been central to performance. In his introduction to this special issue of TDR, guest editor John Bell surveys the field. - 5
A Puppet Tree: A Model for the Field of Puppet Theatre, STEPHEN KAPLIN; Kaplin proposes a new theory of puppet theatre based on distance and ratio-where distance is the degree of separation between performer and object, and ratio the number of objects compared to the number of performers. – 18
Julie Taymor: From Jacques Lecoq to The Lion King, an interview by RICHARD SCHECHNER; with her Broadway smash hit The Lion King, Taymor became one of America’s most popular puppeteers. Her work is grounded in Indonesia, mime training with Jacques Lecoq, and her own decades-long experiments. In this interview, Taymor discusses the overall trajectory of her stage and film work. – 26
What, At the End of This Century, Is the Situation of Puppets and Performing Objects?, PETER SCHUMANN; Peter Schumann, the grandmaster of American puppetry, tells some of what he knows about puppets and performing objects. – 46
The End of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus: Bread and Puppet Theater and Counterculture Performance in the 1990s, JOHN BELL; The Bread and Puppet’s Domestic Resurrection Circus emerged within the counterculture ay' the 1960s and ‘70s and continued through 1998. Bell places this long-running event within the cultural ecology of Vermont and the U.S.A. – 52
Performing the Intelligent Machine: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player 71, MARK SUSSMAN; In historical perspective, Sussman considers the evolution of “automatons”-mechanical and electrical performing objects. These machines could make music, imitate human and animal movements, answer questions, and play chess. – 71
Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre, PYOTR BOGATYREV; This key historical and theoretical document connecting Czech and Russian puppet and folk theatres is translated into English for the first time. Bogatyrev opened a whole new area of semiotic studies. – 87
Modicut Puppet Theatre: Modernism, Satire, and Yiddish Culture, EDWARD PORTNOY; A popular, activist, New York-based hand-puppet theatre of the 1920s and ‘30s, Modicut sharply satirized the clash between tradition and modernity marking Yiddish life in New York. – 105
Articulations: The History of All Things, THEODORA SKIPITARES; Noted for her extraordinarily detailed creations, in this photo essay, Skipitares maps the development if her art from 1977 to the present. – 125
If Gandhi Could Fly...: Dilemmas and Directions in Shadow Puppetry of India, SALIL SINGH; What happens when the government commissions new puppet plays based on the life of Mohandas Gandhi, India’s revered “mahatma” (great soul)? Can the recently sainted compete with the ancient heroes of the Mah bh rata or R m yana? – 144
Rediscovering Mask Performance in Peru: Gustavo Boada, Maskmaker with Yuyachkani, an interview by JOHN BELL; In an interview with John Bell, maskmaker Gustavo Boada discusses how the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani has recuperated traditional Andean performance aesthetics. – 159
The Art of Puppetry in the Age of Media Production, STEVE TILLIS; the microchip has replaced clockworks as the intelligence driving performing objects. What of virtual animation-the magical CGI ’s or computer graphics images? Tillis considers this question from Walter Benjamin through to Waldo-an “ergonomic-gonio-kineti-telemetric device.” – 172
Biographies – 186
Index – 189