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Briefly about the traditions

Added on: Dec 28, 2000 | Hits: 4457

Brief article + photos

Added on: Apr 15, 2001 | Hits: 4172

Brief overview with character descriptions: Harlequin, Pantalone, Pulcinella, Dottore. Part of a site about the Venician Carnival.

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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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The African mask is not an objet d'art in itself, but neither is it a simple cultural or theatrical accessory. At the same time, the sculptor is not an "artist", but his function goes much further than that of a simple craftsman. The majority of the pieces on display radiate a beauty and strength which were admired by Braque, Picasso or Vlaminck, and the sculptors can only be considered as geniuses. The mask was traditionally used in Africa in the majority of ceremonies: feritility or initiation rites, religious or funeral celebrations, but also theatrical or comic performances often linked to the deepest ethnic myths. The mask confers on the person wearing it - for the duration of the ceremony - the essence and the powers of the spirits or ancestors it symbolizes. Secret societies, almost always composed of adult males, are simultaneously repositories and creators. The wearers of masks, sworn to secrecy, are subject to constraints and taboos which protect them from the dangerous magic powers of these objects

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Balinese masks (topeng) are seen most often in the scores of regular dance performances in special tourist venues all over southern Bali, as well as in resturants and hotels. For ritual purposes, the Balinese use masks most often when celebrating temple birthdays. With over 20,000 temples on Bali, each with a different birthday every 210 days, there is ample opportunity to see topeng in action. Masks are also displayed "officially" in processions and trance rituals. Sacred masks must be made from crocodile wood (pule), a tree that grows in cemeteries, the domain of the goddess Rangda. The whole tree isn't cut down. When the pule tree produces a knot, the maskmaker asks the spirit of the tree to be allowed to take the knot for a mask.

Added on: Jun 01, 2002 | Hits: 4168

http://www.mamuthonesmamoiada.it/Versione%20Inglese/MEDITERRANEAN%20MASK%20MUSEUM/Mediterranean%20Mask%20Museum.htm

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Art. in spanish. about mexican masks

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Prof. Michael Meschke a Member of the Executive Committee of the Union International de la Marionnette; a director and film maker; author of "In Search of Aesthetics for the Puppet Theatre" talks to Dr.Gautam Chatterjee at a lunch break during ?Mask? Seminar at New Delhi.

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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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Make a face to help restore the facade of The National Arts Club [15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003]. An October 19th Benefit offers a stylish "Evening in Venice" with a Carnevale mask exhibit and auction, the NYC debut of a Venetian play "The Serpent Woman" [La Donna Serpente] written by Carlo Gozzi and performed by the Pontine Movement Theatre, and Mionetto's Venetian wines to accompany an Italian buffet. Here's your chance to make a mask to help raise funds for a landmarked arts club AND score a neat portfolio credit [as well as a tax deduction] for being part of a group exhibit at The National Arts Club AND gain valuable media exposure. All masks accepted for this auction will be previewed at a PRESS CONFERENCE luncheon October 19, 2000 from 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM. Art, fashion, lifestyle, online, and broadcast media will be invited along with VIPs, mask donors, and sponsors. Any mask accepted for this juried exhibition will also admit the maskmaker to our Oct. 19th Benefit and our Oct. 30th Hallowe'en Benefit for FREE [a $200+ value]. There will also be prizes for the most beautiful mask, funniest mask, and the mask that attracts the highest auction bid. [You do not have to be present to collect a prize.]

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I first cast a basecast of my face. The second step is to build a mask on top of my face/basecast using various clays. Next the clay mask is removed from the basecast and decorated. The clay mask retains the imprint of my face on its underside while the front of the mask may look nothing like me. Each mask I create involves this cycle of connection and separation.

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Acting masked is a skill that in its own right separate from 'normal' acting. It is not a self evident thing. Once masked it is the actor's task to harness all the attributes the mask can offer a performance. Unfortunately, the literature on masked acting is not extensive nor is the best of it readily available. We want to here explore the subject of training actors for masked performance by relying on our own experiences and some key references.

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Topeng: Balinese Masked Dance Legong

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Jord, ild, vand, luft. Site in Danish. by John Jensen. opgave fra Sl?jdl?rerskolen.

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"When a masking ceremony was over special precautions had to be taken. Sources differ on exactly how these measures were carried out. It may have been necessary to protect some masks from human gaze, so as not to offend the spirits.18 Some say masks had to be guarded until they were discarded or else they might make mischief, such as knocking down other masks.19 Masks were sometimes burned,20 often taken to a place away from the village and allowed to go back into the earth, and sometimes given to children.21 "

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By Cat Gonzalez. "....Mexicans love to wear masks, to dance and make music in a blazing display of fireworks, feasting and shooting off pistols. Appearances are deceptive; even the poorest pueblo collects money to celebrate the patron saint's day, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Independence Day and whatever else calls for gaiety and loud noise. Religious and historical dances can't be beat for noise: drums, conch shell horns, seed pods filled with gravel and tied around the legs. Many danzantes in the state of Jalisco affix clacking soles to their sandals The dancers wear masks or elaborate feather head dresses. Magical Rite In Jalisco a magical rite of pre-Hispanic origin is the dance of the paixtle, the Nahuatl word for moss. Twenty years ago they wore capes of moss, today dancers who represent sorcerers dress themselves in a fabric to represent moss and wear wooden or paper masks with human features, covering the head and face with a bandana. Forming two lines, they dance to the music of a violin playing a lovely sone, a type of indigenous music. They make fierce animal cries, shaking a staff carved with the head of a deer from which hangs a string of rattles....."

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+ link to maskmaking

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Masksre a vehicle for not only personal but cultural expression worlwide

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Most Javanese masked dance dramas are history plays celebrating the Javanese kings. In Bali religious ceremonies commonly incorporate masked dances to entertain the gods and ancestors. Javanese and Balinese masks follow conventions. Balinese masks are fairly natural and rounded. Lips are full and chins are less receding than those in Java. In Central Java features are sharp and delicate. In Cirebon in West Java faces are moon-like. In East Java and Madura they tend to be heavily carved.

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Discusses the culture of the indigenous people of New Guinea, including body decoration and mask making.

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This article is not about making masks (1) but is an invitation to readers to think about masks, their use and our relationship with them and offer some starting points for taking hold of mask work. So now, it might be helpful to take a step back and thing about what a mask might be: not its construction, but its purpose. When we take up a mask to dance in, use in ritual, to work magic with, we transform ourselves. Magical masks are not there to hide ourselves from our embarrassment or to conceal ourselves for villainy but to offer a face to a character waiting "over there" to come "over here" and act.

Added on: May 19, 2002 | Hits: 4451

. In recent years the art of Venetian maskmaking has been resurrected, and nowadays more masks actually are purchased to be displayed on a wall as artworks than to be worn as a way of concealing one's identity. These are not your typical Halloween masks, cheap and flimsy toss-aways; the best ones take days to make and cost hundreds of dollars or more.

Added on: Apr 03, 2001 | Hits: 4212

The mask, as a mean of the dramatic transformation of one person into another identity, perhaps ranks among the oldest manifestation of human culture. There is evidence of the use of masks long before people started to cultivate the soil, and certainly before they discovered about the extraction and use of metals.

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Masks of the American Indian have something to say and there is more to these masks than people know .....

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