Mask Makers Web

Here is a link to my mask making Facebook page. Updated almost daily with every mask project I am working on including personal work and custom commissions. Check it out!

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See also the files: masks-msg, theater-bib, theater-msg, cosmetics-msg, puppets-msg, jesters-msg, fabric-paint-msg, guilds-msg, feathers-msg.

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The Egyptians believed that death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through Mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment. Each human consisted of the physical body, the 'ka', the 'ba', and the 'akh'. The Name and Shadow were also living entities. To enjoy the afterlife, all these elements had to be sustained and protected from harm

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Discusses the use of basket yam masks in the harvest festivities of the Abelam people. Offers links to other New Guinea cultural pages. + PHOTOS

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Dr Gautam Chatterjee has studied Indian History as his academic specialization. His Ph.D thesis was on Social History. Dr. Chatterjee has done extensive archival research on various aspects of Indian Culture and Heritage. He has written many acamedic papers on Historical subjects and for common man he has been studying many aspects of Indian culture and did field study on various subjects.

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A mask is only powerful and meaningful when it is in motion in front of an audience. The audience, along with the accompanying musicians and attendants for whom the masker performs, is a very necessary part of a successful masquerade

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By: Christopher Baker The Balinese language has no separate word for art. To create is an integral part of existence; an activity as natural as planting and harvesting rice. Painting is everywhere, everywhere sculpture. As Noel Coward observed: "it appears that each Balinese native from the womb to the tomb is creative." Around Ubud and Mas, in Gianyar province, the shortest walk becomes a magical mystery tour of homegrown art, flourishing in courtyards where chickens scratch in the dirt and titiran birds coo-coo from their cages.

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Specializing in Custom Leather & Neoprene Theatre Masks for Commedia dell?Arte, Pro-Wrestling, Opera, Dance, Clowns, Fashion, Custom made masks, Clown Noses, specializes in molding leather, odd projects & Judaica and teaching workshops. Clients include, Big Apple Circus, Patch Adams, WWF, WWE ?Mankind?, Phantom of the Opera.

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Here you can also learn about the old Pantomime Theatre in Tivoli Garden Copenhagen.Site in Danish and English.

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Site in German Dieses Tanzspiel mit den Masken ist ein pantomimisches Mysterienspiel und dessen Auff?hrungen z?hlen zu den feierlichen Gottesdiensten der Buddhisten. Das Wort ist tibetischen Ursprungs und bedeutet "Tanz".

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... when male dancers appear, surrounded by their followers and wearing tall, heavy masks like this one, receiving salutations, praise names, and songs. The lower ...

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JAKARTA (indo.com): The National Museum is currently exhibiting some 100 Italian masks as part of its cultural exchange programs.

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The Healing Power of Mask-making Katheryn Trenshaw is an American artist and workshop leader from Kalamazoo, Michigan who has recently moved to Devon, England. Throughout the U.S. and Europe she has exhibited her work and led workshops rooted in healing through creative expression, ritual, and movement To book a workshop, organise a lecture or an exhibit, or to receive more information please contact: Katheryn Trenshaw, P.O.Box 3, Totnes TQ9 5WJ, Devon, England

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Maskmakers mentioned. nice photos.

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A GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE:

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My interests include African masks. Collection of African masks. Masks have also be used to discipline women, children, and criminals. For example, in Africa, a mother might paint a scary face on the bottom of a water gourd to make sure the child followed her directions. Along the Guinea coast of West Africa, many realistic masks represent ancestors; the masks symbolize sanction control when worn. The Dan and Ngere tribes of Liberia and Ivory Coast use ancestor masks as intermediaries for the transmission of petitions or offerings of respect to the gods.

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Walking the Talk: Artists connecting with community

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"Composed broadly of the two aspects "ritual worship" (saigi) and "celebration" (shukusai)1, Japanese festivals involve a wide variety of symbolic contents, and are supported by unique organizations, based on the principles of "harmony" and "opposition."2 In this paper I want to interpret the relationship between such symbols and organizations through the medium of a theory of cognition. Human perception is composed of three types of cognition: concrete sensory cognition (kankakuteki ninshiki), abstract conceptual cognition (gainenteki ninshiki), and what might be called an intermediate kind of cognition, namely, representational cognition (hy?sh?teki ninshiki), a form which is involved with everyday perception while still retaining some of the unique features of sensory cognition. The existence of symbols assumes the presence of representational cognition and conceptual cognition, while pure sensory cognition is excluded from the activity of symbol formation......."

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Some Photos and text from different traditions.

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The dance dramas performed on Java and Bali probably originated in ancient rituals honoring the ancestors and for the deities of planting and harvest. Later, Hindu and Islamic religious beliefs added to the richness of the ceremonial stories...+PHOTOS

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(french version) Lots of groups. La vocation principale de Lieux Publics est la cr?ation d'?v?nements artistiques et festifs dans les espaces libres et ouverts des villes. Ces cr?ations s'appuient sur la tradition des Arts de la Rue et exp?rimentent de nouvelles formes d'?criture et de composition ? l'?chelle des environnements urbains modernes. Le th??tre, la danse, la musique, les arts forains et de prouesses, les arts plastiques, l'audiovisuel et les effets sp?ciaux sont les disciplines constitutives des ?v?nements de Lieux publics. Chaque projet g?n?re une mise en sc?ne et une sc?nographie urbaine originale et sp?cifique au site investi.

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Information about characters, plays, and reference sources.

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Mexico is home to many colorful and festive fiestas, each a reflection of the local culture and traditions. Come experience one of Mexico's unique fiestas, the Corpus Cristi fiesta in Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico, full of masks, dances and processions.

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....In cultures in which burial customs are important, anthropomorphic masks have often been used in ceremonies associated with the dead and departing spirits. Funerary masks were frequently used to cover the face of the deceased. Generally their purpose was to represent the features of the deceased, both to honour them and to establish a relationship through the mask with the spirit world. Sometimes they were used to force the spirit of the newly dead to depart for the spirit world. Masks were also made to protect the deceased by frightening away malevolent spirits......

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...With few exceptions, masks have been made by professionals who were either expert in this particular craft or were noted sculptors or artisans. In societies in which masks of supernatural beings have played a significant ceremonial role, it is presumed that the spirit power of the created image usually is strongly felt by the artist.....

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