Mask Makers Web

Wonderful site with fasnachtgroups of Siebnen. Fotos gives you a great impression of the strong swiss mask tradition. (Siebnen is about 40 km east of Zurich,CH )

Added on: Jan 26, 2001 | Hits: 1134

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.

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 843

Heavy metal band performing masked.

Added on: Jan 25, 2001 | Hits: 840

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.

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 1012

A Contemporary Australian Theatre Company from Sydney, whose unique style of visual theatre has taken them to over 40 countries around the world. http://www.smk1.com/spots/poboof.jpg -- Po & boof made from hi impact plastic, formed with a heat gun over the performers positive. More http://www.smk1.com/spots/photos.htm

Added on: Feb 23, 2001 | Hits: 937

Knowing that tales of the past hold precious secret, humans throughout time have looked to sacred texts, myths and life stories, hoping to gain access to a measure of distilled wisdom. Suzanne Benton's mask performances lay that wisdom bare to those who hear and see her tales. In cultures throughout the world, forms of traditional mask dance drama combine stylized voice, movement, and character masks to enact stories of human and divine experience. Benton has created her own version of this ancient dramatic practice, performing it for 29 years to audiences ranging from 50 to 5000 in 28 countries. She welds her expressive and unique masks out of steel, sometimes brazing them with bronze and uses them in performances that reclaim tales from worldwide sources, transforming them into personal and moving life stories

Added on: Feb 11, 2003 | Hits: 898

"TaskMaskers shares joy with others through mask theater. By creating, educating, and performing in mask, we seek to reach people and evolve them through laughter and pathos" + EDUCATION AND WORKSHOPS

Added on: Dec 30, 2000 | Hits: 982

"TaskMaskers shares joy with others through mask theater. By creating, educating, and performing in mask, we seek to reach people and evolve them through laughter and pathos"

Added on: Jan 16, 2001 | Hits: 836

Kunstnere og sindslidende skaber sammen

Added on: Dec 27, 2000 | Hits: 1042

English version of website under construction 2007 - june.

Added on: Jun 17, 2007 | Hits: 2701

The Venetian Company "Teatroimmagine" was born in 1989 on the initiative of a small group of young artists who had different experiences in the Venetian Popular Theather.

Added on: Jan 15, 2001 | Hits: 982

Another direction we can take when looking for the meaning behind the Green Man is to study the character known in England as 'Jack-in-the- Green'. This was a figure who joined the May-Day revels in the 19thC, becoming particular!y associated with the chimney sweeps who along with many other trades, used this national holiday as an opportunity to boost their lean income with a little begging. In return, they provided some entertainment of rowdy variety. This involved them dressing up in gaudy tinsels and ribbons, with blackened faces "like morris dancers" and performing a rough and ready dance around a Jack-in-the-Green to the music of shovels, sticks, drums, and whistles. The Jack was a man inside a conical framework of wicker covered with leaves. A small gap was left in this, through which the occupant could peer- very like some of the Green Man figures in the churches.

Added on: Jun 05, 2002 | Hits: 842

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.

Added on: Nov 08, 2002 | Hits: 825

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.

Added on: Nov 08, 2002 | Hits: 864

The 'Players' are a group of actors in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), who got together in the summer/fall of 1991 and have been together ever since. Well, some of them have. As with any body of people - especially in a volunteer organization like the SCA, some come and go, others stick around ...

Added on: May 06, 2001 | Hits: 1104

The Green Fools are a physical theatre company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company is dedicated to the production of innovative performances,which are often performed in unusual settings.

Added on: Dec 30, 2000 | Hits: 883

The Silamiut Theatre was established in 1984, and is Greenland's only professional theatre company. Those who started the theatre company were all educated at Tuukkaq Drama College in Denmark. Silamiut is a project oriented theatre, which has produced more than 20 children's family and adult shows. Its members work with experimental theatre, cabaret, musical shows (song, rock, folk music), traditional drum dancing, mask-play, modern dancing, video, TV- and radio productions, music releases etc. Besides being Katuaq's (Greenlandic Centre for Performing Arts) residential theatre, Silamiut is also an active touring company, and has performed in Greenland, the Nordic countries, all of the Arctic region, U.S.A., Europe and Australia.

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Traditional English ceremonial dance, theatre & song

Added on: May 19, 2002 | Hits: 931

The Venetian Company "Teatroimmagine" was born in 1989 on the initiative of a small group of young artists who had different experiences in the Venetian Popular Theather

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Masktheatre. Site in German. Wonderful masks here!

Added on: Jul 03, 2002 | Hits: 1209

Ein wichtiger Schwerpunkt unserer Arbeit ist das spontane Aktionstheater. Dabei bewegen wir uns frei auf dem Platz und treiben unsere Possen. Die Distanz zwischen Akteuren und Zuschauern ist hierbei weitgehend aufgehoben, denn wir legen Wert darauf, die Besucher und Teilnehmer der Veranstaltung durch direkte Ansprache mit in unser Spiel einzubeziehen. Maskenspiel und Mummenschanz

Added on: Apr 09, 2001 | Hits: 826

"Masken, soweit sie nicht im Theater oder beim Karneval anzutreffen sind, hinterlassen auch au?erhalb der B?hne ihre Spuren und treiben ihren Mummenschanz ganz ungeniert in aller ?ffentlichkeit; Menschen, mit Gesichtern maskiert. Nicht immer werden die Spielregeln eingehalten und w?ren da nicht die Taten, w??te man wohl nie was sich hinter so manchem Gesicht befindet. Masken, soweit sie im Theater oder beim Karneval anzutreffen sind, leben von ihrer Faszination und da sie nichts zu verbergen haben ( bis auf ein Gesicht ), hat man auch keine Angst vor ihnen. Unerbittlich zwingen sie dem Spieler ihre physischen und psychischen Eigenschaften auf und geben erst Ruhe, wenn sie, total entfesselt, zu leben beginnen, um uns in ihren Bann zu ziehen............"

Added on: Apr 09, 2001 | Hits: 877

Die meisten Masken sind aus Pappmach?. Ein besonderes Verfahren erlaubt es Len Shirts, eine ungew?hnlich glatte und differenzierte Struktur zu schaffen.

Added on: Jul 01, 2002 | Hits: 923

Site In german. Take a look anyway, if you don`t understand. Great masks and characters to be seen here. workshops, Stageplay, Streettheatre and more... "Eine breite Palette - Theater R.A.B. verf?gt ?ber einen Fundus von ?ber 50 Voll- und Halbmasken, entworfen und gefertigt von Len Shirts ?ber eine Zeitspanne von 25 Jahren. Die meisten Masken sind aus Pappmach?. Ein besonderes Verfahren erlaubt es Len Shirts, eine ungew?hnlich glatte und differenzierte Struktur zu schaffen....."

Added on: Jul 24, 2002 | Hits: 1054

( The Theatre using Basel / Larval/ Potato people masks. Offering workshops too.) "Delighting audiences from New York to Madrid with its unique style of visual theatre, Theatre Beyond Words has played to over 2 million people worldwide since its founding in 1977. Creating original works for young and general audiences, our company has garnered international acclaim for its artistic and entertaining performances that transcend cultural barriers and incorporate innovative uses of mask, mime, puppetry and music. Theatre Beyond Words has been nominated for various awards including the Dora Mavor. The company also received The American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionette Award in 1987 for excellence in puppetry"

Added on: Mar 30, 2001 | Hits: 1016