Toy Theater With Metaphoric Objects
6 sessions, July 27th-Aug 3rd $210
Shadow Puppetry: Investigating Comics and Cinema
6 sessions, Aug 5th - 11th $210
Make and perform puppetry at your kitchen table with an online cohort of your peers. Limited to 12 students per course. Take both courses, get $10 off.
Contemporary puppet theater approaches design and devising from a holistic perspective. All objects onstage contribute to a total performing world. Characters, scenery, and even the stage itself may all be manipulated by hand to become animate, performing beings. These courses investigate the tools and tricks of comics and cinema in the context of puppetry. In each class we’ll mock up visual storytelling concepts while you work towards creating a short original piece of toy theater or shadow puppetry.
This curriculum aims to tune your capacity to connect deeply with an audience. Be the insightful artist and storyteller that you already are. Revolutionize your puppetry!
KATE BREHM directs and designs visual theater with puppets, physical acting, and scenic dramaturgy. She teaches movement for puppeteers and visual storytelling with puppetry at Harvard University and elsewhere. www.katebrehm.com
Contact imnotlost.ny@gmail.com for more information and to sign up.
See www.katebrehm.com/teach
Toy Theater With Metaphoric Objects
6 Sessions, July 27th - Aug 3rd $210
An online class with the screen as your stage and puppets at your kitchen table!
Metaphor, n. Something regarded as representative or suggestive of something else, esp. as a material emblem of an abstract quality, condition, notion, etc.; a symbol, a token.
Sunday July 27th, 7-9pm
Monday July 28th, 7-9pm
Wednesday July 30th, 7-9pm
Thursday July 31st, 7-9pm
Saturday August 2nd, 4-6pm
Sunday August 3rd, 4-6pm
eastern time
This class uses toy theater puppetry to explore the metaphors and stories inherent in performing objects. Over 5 sessions we will devise, build, and perform a short puppet show with cardboard and simple household materials that inspires the imagination of your audience and pokes at their meaning-making nature. With a focus on experimentation, we explore the dramaturgy of backgrounds, performing frames, story arcs, and using and moving text. With the breath or our hands, we tell stories through dynamic movement. Get ready to play, flop, and discover!
Contact imnotlost.ny@gmail.com for more information and to sign up.
See http://www.katebrehm.com/teach
Shadow Puppetry: Investigating Comics and Cinema
6 sessions, Aug 5th-11th $210
An online class with puppets at your kitchen table!
Puppetry is a medium rich in visual storytelling! This class delves into common practices from graphic novels and film, but applies them to shadow puppetry! Each class explores prompts that inspire experiments in concepts such as, dramatic tension through line, visual conflict, mood, directing the eye of the viewer, live ‘editing,’ and transitions that draw out an audience’s imaginative powers
Tue Aug 5th, 7-9pm
Wed Aug 6th, 7-9pm
Thurs Aug 7th, 7-9pm
Sat Aug 9th, 4-6pm
Sun Aug 10th, 4-6pm
Mon Aug 11th, 7-9pm
eastern time on zoom
You’ll work with a tabletop light-screen set-up made from simple home materials or a more complicated arrangement of your own design. All puppetry skill levels are welcome, but some craft skills are required. Basic shadow puppet construction techniques are covered while we absorb ourselves in the design and performance of visual stories!
Contact imnotlost.ny@gmail.com for more information and to sign up.
See http://www.katebrehm.com/teach