Puppetry Midterm

What is the Publication Date of Puppet Tree

August 1999.

Who are the Greatest Purveyors of Puppetry

Jim Henson and Peter Schumann.

What Puppetry Organizations publish journals on puppetry?

Two puppetry organizations that publish journals on puppetry are Puppeteers of America and UNIMA (the Union International de la Marionette).

What is a Puppet's Nature According to Frank Proschan

Material image of humans, animals or spirits, that are created, displayed, or manipulated.'

What is the Puppet's Nature According to Henryk Jurkowski

The speaking and performing object makes temporal use of physical sources for its vocal and driving powers, which are present beyond the object.

What is the Starting Point for Classification System

the relation between the object and the performer, (distance between them)

What is this called?

A kayon is a fan/tree shaped shadow figure of an Indonesian wayang kulit performances. They are made from punctured buffalo hide. It represents the universe in a tree and is used to frame the play in the beginning and end.

What is the Puppet Definition Criteria

Where the center of gravity of the performing object and the performer are distinct from each other

Rod Puppet types used in Puppet Tree

wayang golek, Bunraku.

Countries and region with Marionette Practices

USA, and Indonesia. region is Malaysia.

Technology in Puppetry

Puppets that have access to motors and puppeteers that are on set allow a greater distance between puppets (performing objects) and puppeteers (performers).

Separation in Shadow Puppetry

The type of puppetry is shadow puppetry that separates an object and its image.

Why did jim henson start in puppetry

Jim Henson wanted to get himself into television and was searching for different opportunities to be able to get into the business.

What was Jim Hensons first TV puppet show? When did it air

Sam and Friends, 1955.

Changes by Jim Henson in Puppet Show

He changed the way they created the show behind the scenes by using a TV screen to see what was happening and make adjustments to their performance.

How was the original Kermit made

Body: old coat that was jims mother's. Eyes: two half ping pong balls.

What did European puppetry influence Jim H on?

he learned that puppetry was a respected and serious form of art.

Characteristics of early Muppet commercials

Really short, usually violent especially the endings, and had ludicrous humor.

What was Frank Oz's description of Henson

Frank Oz claimed that Henson was a driven man who was very sweet, always silly or entertaining, with a wild imagination.

What is Youth68

Political response made by Jim talking about counterculture, showing juxtapositions about different things like religions and drugs.

Reason for Sesame Street

Jim Henson created this educational TV program to educate pre-school aged children, especially those less fortunate.

Why was the muppet shworejected?

Major U.S. broadcasting didn't see it appealing to adults and viewed it purely as a children's show.

Meaning od Kermit's song Its not easy Being Green

Finding your purpose in life, with themes of hope, purpose, and dreams.

Difference between E.T. and The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal was entirely done by puppets, with no humans interrupting the puppet world.

Technical advancements in The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and The Jim Henson Hour

Major advancements included animatronics, radio-controlled animatronics, CGI, and new ways of technically puppeteering.

What was the Last big financial decision by Jim Henson

Selling the Muppet company to Disney.

What is the Idea Man's Documentary ending

The documentary ends with statements by Jim Henson's family and close colleagues that pay tribute to his life.

When was Bread and Puppet Theater founded? What is it known for?

1963, known for its radical and political works that differ from mainstream U.S. puppetry.

How was Bread and puppet theater works different from others

A low-budget art approach that effectively conveys messages despite not being elaborate.

Fire, Bread and Puppet theater

A show produced by Bread and Puppet in response to the Vietnam War.

Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, Bread and puppet theater

A show addressing various political issues produced by Bread and Puppet.

Hallelujah, Bread and puppet theater

A show about a female world intertwined with U.S. military violence, produced by Bread and Puppet.

The Revenge of the Law, Bread and puppet theater

A show produced by Bread and Puppet in response to wars and atrocities.

1974, where did Peter and Elka Schumann move, and how

Glover, Vermont- an ex-dairy farm for building and rehearsing puppet shows.

What is Christian Dupavillon's perspective of bread and puppet theater

European theater due to Peter's German education and themes stemming from wartime trauma.

Domestic Resurrection Circus discontinuation

Discontinued after 1998 due to safety issues and overcrowding, with attendance reaching 30,000-40,000 people.

What tableus were in this show?

in order:

Zoom Call

Swan Lake + Do Not Feed the Bears

Mother Earth Held by Three Most Important Billionaires

Chief Justice vs. Voters

Most Capitalist Solution for Global Warming

Currier’s Quality Market

Srebrenica Massacre

The History of the Pod

The Comet

Red Spinning Mama

Dangerous Jobs in America

A Brief History of Reparations

Magician

Where Do We Go From Here

A Foot Watched by Three Eyes

Normality – Insurrection

Two Organizations that cosponsored the 13th Congress of UNIMA

The Puppeteers of America and UNIMA-USA

What was the Scale of the congress and World Puppetry festival in the 1980s

large attendance, lots of reach across many people in the united states, as well as international participation.

Initiators of hosting the congress and festival in the U.S.

Jim Henson and Nancy Staub.

Who were the Main funders of the puppet festival

Jim Henson along with Puppeteers of America, and UNIMA-USA.

Goals in performance selection for the festival

raise awareness about puppetry and its many uses rather than just children's entertainment, more audience to be exposed and liked, increase puppetry credibility as a serious form of art.

Attendance of the exhibition Puppets: Art and Entertainment

About 3 million people: went on a national tour, and was apart of the original 1980 Puppetry Festival.

FBI agents' inquiry to Staub

The FBI agents asked Staub why she visited the Czech republic.

Main achievement of hosting the congress and festival

Puppetry recognition as a serious art form by the NEA.

What did Jim Henson's say in the video here come the puppets?

Most Americans think that puppets are for CHILDREN.

Three basic designs by which puppets are operated

Glove/Hand puppets, String Puppets, and finally Rod puppets.

Function of a swazzle in Punch puppetry

Voice of Punch, a reed.

Origin of the puppet form performed by Michael Manteo

Sicily, more specifically from the Opera dei Pupi and Michael Manteo's family.

Type of puppet show presented by Japanese theatre company PUK

A traditional Japanese Bunraku Puppetry performance.

Type of puppetry mastered by Albert Roser

String puppets.

Influences on Peter Waschinsky from East Germany

Traditional German hand puppet show, European pantomime, Japanese Bunraku style puppetry

Director of the State Central Puppet theater

Sergei Obraztsov

Jim Henson's relationship with puppetry traditions

Jim Henson respected, and created a supportive environment for puppetry traditions, however he liked to connect the traditional puppetry traditions and the modern day televisions puppetry. He also added his own thoughts and ideas to the modern day puppetry straying away from those tradition, while staying paying respect to them.

Reason for performing the Ramayana as a shadow puppet play

to appease a goddess. This goddess being Bhadrakali. ecause this goddess missed the victory over the demon king, so Lord Shiva granted a blessing that it may be preformed for her.

How do they annouce the puppet play in Tolpavakoothu

They announce it with a ceremonial drum beat.

"We worship ( ). ( ) is light. It is always present at ( ) sacred events."

Fire, witness to

Oracle's role on the first night

lead a procession by taking a flame from the temple to the puppet theater.

Duration of Ramayana story

It takes 21 days/nights

Why do these Puppeteers' have alternative income

For 8 months of the year, there are no performances are held

Puppet making process

Making a puppet from buffalo hide is many steps. You have to prepare the hide after obtaining it, you first have to 'soak it' to make it softer.

Who is Rama

Hero of the Ramayana. Shown as a warrior and protector. Rama is an avatar of Dharma.

Who is Sita

Rama's wife. Undergoes 14 years of exile, and is the embodiment of womanhood.

Who is Ravana

10-headed demon king of Lanka. Defeated by Rama after he abducts Sita.

Number of puppets for Ramayana

150 puppets.

Shadow puppetry vs live actors

anything is visible due to the shadows so it's easier to portray things.

Tradition with women preformers

Tradition doesn't permit women to be performers.

"Farming allows me to ( ); shadow puppetry allows me to ( )."

sustenance; pray

Why do they preform even without audience

This is because it is an offering to the gods even with a lack of audience.

Concerns for Tholpavakoothu

This is because there is a lack of interest and therefore audience and funding.

Plavar's hope

Plavar's hope was to make people live happy in order to have a good life.

Dalang's characters

This puppeteer uses characters like: 'They did the good guy, bad guy, silly guys' etc.

Symbols in wayang kulit

They symbolize the cosmos: Screen: sky, lamp: sun, banana log: earth, and dalang: god.

Most popular stories in Wayang puppet theater

Ramayana, and the Mahabharata,

What is a Dalang

A puppeteer who creates stories based on mythology by taking a line from a base story and expanding it into a full narrative.

Why are Shadow Puppets painted

Puppets that are painted for three reasons: to complete them, to identify each one in the dark, and for inspiration.

Who is Arjuna

A character from the Mahabharata introduced by Larry Reed.

Why did larry Reed make Shadow Master

A film made by Larry Reed to address the lack of connection to mythical stories in western theater.

What unique invention did Larry Reed develop based on wayang kulit, and what kinds of stories did he tell with it?

a drive in movie size shadow play. He told stories like Xanadu, jazz pieces, native american cultural stories, monkey king stories, ect. Basically he told cultural stories from many different places.

What is the type of storytelling that Manual Cinema practices.

Cinematic Shadow Puppetry

What is the light source used by Manual Cinema.

Overhead Projectors

We are really inspired by the ( ) our medium provides us. Stories are told ( ). And that ( ) has led to a lot of creativity and new ideas.

constaints, nonverbally, constaint

What is Nonverbal Storytelling

The method through which stories are told in Manual Cinema.

What Manual Cinema gained by flipping projectors around to the audience's side. Audience Interaction

Audience Interaction

From Julia Miller's perspective, what it means to make puppets come alive?

The concept Julia Miller refers to when making puppets come alive through specific motions, and makig them breathe

What is the Function of Music in Manuel Cinema

music reflects the inner state of the characters and acts as a narrator.

Fill in the blank: It takes a lot of ( ) and a lot of ( ) in getting ( ) together ( ) as one.

concentration, rehearsal, everyone breathing, breathing

Fill in the Blanks

Glove puppet theatre originated in ( ) ( ) in the ( ) century and spread throughout Southeast Asia via Chinese ( ) .

Southern China, 17th century, migrants.

What was the Taiwanese Government's Action to help Budaxi

Set up an apprentice program

How did Golden Ray Puppet Theater change traditional puppet theatre?

high performance shows with special effects and embracing new technologies.

Traditional glove puppets

Less human and more cartoonish.

Pili's television productions puppets

Enlarged to make them more realistic and easier to manipulate in big movements.

Fill in the blank : Glove puppetry incorporate many arts - carving, painting, embroidery, costume making and it is also a ( ) theatre

Music

What Master Chen His-Huang's analogy

A baker can't rise a dough without adding yeast, explaining that technology cannot replace traditional customs and original performances.

Punch's first recorded puppet play

England in May 1662 by Samuel Pepys in Covent Garden London.

What are Marionettes

String puppets unlike the Punch and Judy glove puppets.

Who is Pulcinella

The character from Italian commedia dell'arte with a squeaky voice and a beak mask.

What is a Swazzle

Used to create Punch's voice; was a reed back then.

Earliest script of Punch and Judy show

Transcribed in 1827.

Punch's cousins

Kasperle from Southern Germany and Austria, Polichinelle from France, Karakoz from Turkey, and Petrushka from Russia.