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Gimme Theatre combine contemporary performance and themes with Commedia dell'Arte to produce a style that is fast, funny, physical, a bit satirical and highly absurd. They might be compared to other companies such as Ophaboom in the UK, who are reinventing the form to reach a wide audience while staying true to the Commedia spirit.

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America's Giant Puppet Company. Holli Rubin, Artistic Director

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Puppets | Commissions | Workshops | Theatre | First Night Cheryl Capezzuti is a Pittsburgh area visual artist best known for her giant puppets, which have appeared on Good Morning America! as well as at The Black Sheep Puppet Festival, The Detroit Festival of the Arts, The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, First Night Pittsburgh, and The Andy Warhol Museum. In addition to work as a puppetmaker, Capezzuti exhibits as a sculptor, painter and installation artist, designs sets, costumes and props for theatre, and teaches in school, workshop and laundromat settings. She can best be described as a community artist and visual collaborator since most of her work comes to life through collaborations with other arts professionals and communities of participants.

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Giant Puppets for sale and hire GIANT PUPPETPERFORMANCES

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The Peace Pilgrims are twenty foot giant puppets that dance beneath the slopes of the great Rocky Mountains and delight the many visitors who come to Estes Park, Colorado. The Peace Pilgrims represent the power of the mask- the power to think in larger terms than our small lives. Their presence fosters the conditions of peace by bringing people together with powerful imagery, music, energy and collective celebration

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Rent a colourful parade, walkabouts, costumes, big props or giant puppets. Workshops for masks, costumes, giant puppets and lanterns.Pageants and outdoor shows designed and devised

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SKY HIGH workshops are all about masks and puppets ~ pageantry and celebration. My workshops are designed for small groups in communities and classrooms. The workshops offer hands on experience with paper modelling, puppet & mask making, toy theatre, performance work and celebration.

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Since 1991 Jonathan Keezing has delighted audiences with Puppet Caravan Puppet Theater (Originaly titled "Instant Puppet Theater"). Caravan productions feature original puppets, diverse puppetry styles, beautiful staging and original music. Workshops done

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The Spiral Q Puppet Theater seeks to mobilize communities, empower marginalized people and illuminate the victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and similar urban settings through the construction of full-scale giant puppet parades, toy theater and neighborhood pageantry. Through its puppet parades and pageants, Spiral Q is resurrecting and reclaiming an almost forgotten form of people's theater to amplify and unite the power and vitality of those working for change through art-making, protest, and civic theater. Matthew (Mattyboy) Hart founded Spiral Q as a shadow puppet theater, staging performances at local benefits and events. Social change groups came to Spiral Q to make puppets, props and effigies for demonstrations and education campaigns. Through these building sessions Philadelphia activists started to discover new ways of working together and communicating their issues.

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Dorchester's pageant giants are never happier than when they're at a festival or parade. Since 1987 they've been adding a higher perspective to events in Dorset and the wider world. From one point of view they may be no more than animated statues of metal, plastic and fabric. From another they are fantasy made real. To the open-minded, including the eager minds of children; they are visitors from the land of fairy-tale.

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BIGG maintains a list of currently active giants, the majority of the giants on list are not BIGG members. This list is updated as changes are reported, it will never be completely accurate. The list is very out of date. was are contacting as many giant groups as possible and hope to be able to post a more accurate list someime in the spring (2000). If you know of any giants not on this list, or if any entry should be amended or deleted; please tell us.

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LONGSHOT MEGABUCK$ THE ART OF CELEBRATION Longshot Megabucks started in 1986 with a group of performers and festival artists getting together to offer packages of entertainment, decorations and activities to events, festivals and major venues. Over the years we have formed and reformed in various groupings. The long term view was to gear up for the then upcoming Australian Bicentennial celebrations and to put together a travelling fayre, a combination of performance venue and market. This became Circus Solarus which itself , after much growth and evolution is still performing.

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Luna Theatre specializes in shadow puppet performance and giant festival puppets. Luna combines traditional stories with new ones, experimenting with puppetry, masks, music, and movement as creative, expressive forms. Based out of Somerville, MA, Luna has been active since 1995. For information, call us at (617)653-8123, or email us at: LunaTheatre@aol.com

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Madcap Productions Puppet Theatre is a nonprofit, touring children's theater company which combines giant puppets with actors to create a unique style of puppet theater. Madcap wants to introduce children to a whole new concept of puppetry, one that allows all the elements of theater to be combined in an artistic and educational performance. Now in its twentieth year, the company offers in production both original scripts and fresh adaptations of old tales.

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The Joshua Squad is a theatre mime, mask, commedia ministries group that focuses on missions work in the arts. The Joshua Squad, performing arts ministry team from Belhaven College, from its first year of inception has captured the imagination of audiences of all ages and from all walks of life. In an effort to raise funds to travel and go on missions trips, the Joshua Squad books appearances at churches, civic groups, business meetings, and other special events. Performing with the Mississippi Symphony, for birthday parties or in church functions, the Joshua Squad hopes to focus on the attributes that the Apostle Paul described in Philippians 4:8-9. Funds from appearances go directly to the missions fund for the Squad.

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French Mask Theatre company - Site in french. Implant?e depuis 1982 ? Gonesse, elle r?alise une ou deux pi?ces chaque ann?e. Th??tres classique et contemporain se succ?dent : de Marivaux ? Sartre, de Feydeau ? Lanoux , de Von Horvath ? Arrabal... Des cr?ations, ?crites par des acteurs de la Compagnie, voient ?galement le jour : caf?-th??tre, commedia dell'arte, drame romantique (parodi?)...

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BIG NAZO is an international performance group of visual artists, puppet performers, and masked musicians who unite to create bizarre and hilarious larger-than-life sized characters, environments, and spectacles Their innovative mask & puppetry techniques combine stand-up comedy, Sci-Fi, Go-Go dancing, daredevil stunts, soap opera hysterics and professional wrestling with live rock & funk music and audience-interactiveimprovisation.

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( Great photo gallery covering years of fasnacht with masks in Switzerland. ) Herrscher vergangener Epochen, Besucher aus den Tiefen des Alls, gef?hrliche D?monen, unheimliche Wesen aus fremden Welten, Narren die einem das Blut gefrieren lassen, Krieger aus vergessenen Zeiten, Kr?fte des Windes, verf?hrerische M?rchenwesen verfolgt von listigen Zwergen, verr?ckte Gestalten voller ?berraschungen, gr?ssliche Monster, Alptr?ume die wahr werden, Armeen die ausflippen, Marionetten die zum Leben erweckt werden

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Traditional German Fasnacht troupe. Beautiful masks. " Zur Geschichte der Furtwanger Fastnacht Ende Januar 1926 wollten die Furtwanger Vereine - sie hatten die traditionsreiche b?uerliche Fastnacht bislang organisiert - wegen der schwierigen Wirtschaftslage "von jeder Fastnachtsveranstaltung Abstand nehmen". Doch die vielen Freunde der Furtwanger Fastnacht konnten sich damit nicht abfinden: Sie protestierten heftig und gr?ndeten die Narrenzunft Sp?ttlebuebe. ?ber 800 B?rger hatten sich dazu in der Festhalle versammelt. Der ?lteste Furtwanger Fastnachtsbeleg geht ins fr?he 18. Jahrhundert zur?ck, er bezeugt den "Hirschmendig", gefeiert an der alten Fastnacht. Weitere Belege dokumentieren auch f?r das 19. Jahrhundert eine an Einzelfiguren reiche Fastnacht, darunter wohl auch ein Strohb?r, so j?ngste Erkenntnisse."

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Traditional German Mask group for trad. carnival - Fasnacht. Wonderful witches among the characters. " Die Sage der Kohlwaldhexe, wurde vom fr?heren Rektor der Sulzbergschule, Herrn Traub, zur Verf?gung gestellt. 1989 gesellte sich zu den Kohlwaldhexen die Einzelmaske des K?hlers, mit dem, der Sage nach, die Hexen im Kohlwald droben ihren Mummenschanz trieben."

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Traditional German maskgroup - Narrenzunft. Beautiful masks and fascinating characters with great stories behind them...Site in German.

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The Tradition in Waldsee goes way back to to 15th century. Today there are 2100 hundred members and 2300 masks gathered her yearly!!1 Site in German

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Traditionroots way back to year 1483..Revival of devils and witches..Beautiful masks here. "Angeregt durch den alten Offenburger Fasentruf "Schelle, schelle Sechser, alli alti Hexe!", kommt im Jahr 1933 ein junges Offenburger P?rchen auf die Idee, eben diese "alti Hexe" zum Leben zu erwecken. Gedacht, getan. Mit Freude und Begeisterung werken, kleben, kitten und n?hen sie an einer Hexenmaske. Strohz?pfe h?ngen sie ihr an und stecken sie unter ein rotes Kopftuch."

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Mask, puppet and "foolery" company based in Calgary, Canada. Create their own masks and performances. Tour locally, nationally and internationally. FESTIVAL. Curates and organizes an international Festival of Animated Objects biannually (next festival in 2005) focusing on mask and puppetry.

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links to many B+P acitivities, interviews etc..

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