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The Magical Moonshine Theatre has been recognized for fine quality productions with emphasis on puppetry, mask and music since its founding by Michael and Valerie Nelson in 1979. Live programming includes touring

Added on: Jun 20, 2002 | Hits: 7619

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: 7923

"Mindspinners" is a group of three people, the Austrians Johannes and Georg Rauter and the Italian Cristina Pasini.Our performance consists of juggling and passing with torches, swinging with Poi's and torches, Devilsticks, Longsticks, Fire spitting and several Effects. All together combined with music and a mask-theatre, we want to tell a story and take the audience on a mystical journey. One of the nicest feedbacks we got once from a blind women in Poland. After the Show she came up to us and said thank you. She told us she enjoyed the Performance very much even though she couldn't see it but she could feel the atmosphere we were creating and that she said was just beautiful.That's what it's all about for us, seeing the people spread out the after the show with a smile on their faces...

Added on: Jul 01, 2002 | Hits: 7636

Mangs Masker Theater brengt figuren op stelten, grote figuren die het publiek doorkruisen (?Giganten?), de Drakenparade (een act waaraan het publiek naar hartelust mag meedoen). Giants, stilts, masktheatre. Netherland.

Added on: Jul 01, 2002 | Hits: 7597

Masktheatre. Site in German. Wonderful masks here!

Added on: Jul 03, 2002 | Hits: 8512

Site in Spanish. Troupe from Madrid

Added on: Jul 23, 2002 | Hits: 7713

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: 8277

Seattle-based theatre director, designer, performer, and playwright In the puppetry, mask, and theatre work I do, visual art and performance art come together. Each of these are integral to how I approach my work, and each complement the other. How a puppet or mask moves is equally important to how it looks, and the attention to detail in construction is as necessary as the attention to detail in performance. In performance, I draw on a diversity of sources from folklore to current events, and often engage socially relevant themes to shape the narrative. Using shadow puppets, masks and storytelling for intimate indoor performances, and high impact and highly visual giant puppets, stilt-walking, and dance for outdoor shows, I strive to challenge my audiences to think creatively and critically about the world we live in. The use of puppetry is central to what I do. Puppets challenge us to think creatively and imaginatively and question preconceived notions of 'reality.' Puppets constantly subvert notions of what is 'real' and what is 'unreal,' challenging the limits of what we think possible, turning our world upside down. Puppets dismiss the rational and prosaic, reintroducing us to myth, a vitally important component in re-envisioning or lives and our world.

Added on: Sep 28, 2002 | Hits: 7782

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.

Added on: Oct 02, 2002 | Hits: 8774

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

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 14760

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.

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 11783

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

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 7460

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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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

Added on: Oct 07, 2002 | Hits: 11683

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: 7864

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: 7748

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: 7549

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.

Added on: Nov 09, 2002 | Hits: 8470

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

Added on: Nov 09, 2002 | Hits: 7429

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.

Added on: Nov 16, 2002 | Hits: 8820

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.

Added on: Nov 17, 2002 | Hits: 7576

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?)...

Added on: Nov 17, 2002 | Hits: 12160

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.

Added on: Nov 17, 2002 | Hits: 14982

( 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

Added on: Nov 22, 2002 | Hits: 8771