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American puppetry institution. Founded in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, by Vincent Anthony, the Center for Puppetry Arts is the largest nonprofit in North America dedicated to the art of puppetry…
The Central African Republic (Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; French: République centrafricaine or Centrafrique) is a landlocked nation in Central [Africa]. This country of Ubangian, Bantu…
Brazilian centre for social communication created in 1968. In 1975, Centro de Communicaçáo Social do Nordeste (CECOSNE, Centre for Social Communication of the Northeast) became a foundation and an important distribution centre for works of puppetry…
Documentation Centre for Puppets inaugurated in Bilbao, Spain, in 1987. This institution actually originated in 1982 at the First International Puppet Festival. It has since become a central institution whose main objective is to provide puppetry a safe space for expression within the realm of culture and the performing arts…
Chilean puppeteers. The brothers Enrique and Hugo Cerda, biology professor and visual artist respectively, have continued to practise and spread the art of puppetry…
Italian poet, writer, essayist, translator and puppeteer. Guido Ceronetti’s poetic work and his creations for puppets are linked to his research in philosophy, constituting two facets of his battle against ugliness and vulgarity…
The Republic of Chad (Arabic: تشاد Tšād, جمهورية تشا Ǧumhūriyyat Tšād; French: Tchad, République du Tchad) extends from the Sahara Desert to tropical Africa and includes two hundred diverse ethnic groups with a Muslim majority as well as significant Christian and Animist groups…
Traditional shadow theatre from Maharashtra in south-west India. In the Marathi language, bahulya means “figure” and chamdyacha (or chamadyacha) “leather”…
French cabaret and shadow theatre. Opened on November 18, 1881 at 84 Boulevard Rochechouart in Paris by an unsuccessful painter…
Chinese shadow puppet museum based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The Chengdu Chinese Shadow Puppet Museum, with a collection of more than 200,000 shadow figures and 10,000 puppets…
Chinese puppet and shadow theatre company based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Founded in 1957 through the gathering together of a number of local traditional private marionette and shadow puppet troupes…
French company founded in Amiens in 1979 by Georges and Michèle Baillon and directed since 1989 by their daughter, director Sylvie Baillon (Amiens, 1960). The repertoire of Ches Panses Vertes focuses at first on tales: La Soupe à cailloux…
Accessory for string puppets. System invented by French puppeteer Jacques Chesnais (1907-1971), inspired by some old apparatus, it saves considerable time when on tour and having to pack and unpack string puppets…
French puppeteer and collector. Jacques Chesnais already had a head start as an ex-student of Fernand Léger when he decided, in 1931, to devote himself to his passion for puppets…
The South American nation, the Republic of Chile (Spanish: República de Chile), is located between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west…
Today, China – officially the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó) governed by the Communist Party of China – is located in East [Asia] and is comprised of twenty-two provinces…
Traditional glove puppet theatre from Karnataka in south-west India. In the city of Bangalore there are certain beggars known for their skills as puppeteers…
Dominican puppet company. Established in 1980, this group is directed by Angel Mejía. Company members have developed multiple activities as trainers and promoters of puppetry…
Russian theatre director and pedagogue. From 1964 to 1967, Viktor Shraiman was an actor in the State Kharkov Puppet Theatre (Ukraine). From 1967 to 1972…
Relations between puppetry and cinema are numerous and take various forms. Examination of similarities raises issues of how one influenced the other both theoretically and thematically…
French company created in 1978 by Alain Le Bon, actor, puppeteer, writer and stage director (b.1949) and by Michelle Gauraz. Having inherited the traditions of the “théâtre des courants d’air” (open air theatres)…
Hungarian puppet theatre founded in 1962 in Kecskemét. The Ciróka Puppet Theatre consisted of an amateur troupe that became professional in 1987 and was at first the puppetry division of the József Katona Theatre in Kecskemét before becoming independent in 1990 under the artistic direction of Géza Kovács (1990-1997)…
Japanese troupe founded in Osaka in 1948. Inspired by and mirroring the work of Ningyō-Gekidan PŪKU (PUK Puppet Theatre), Osaka students and workers…
American puppeteer, director and producer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 17, 1960 and raised in nearby Turner Station, Kevin Clash began making puppets as a child…
Canadian company founded in 1966 in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Arlyn Coad (London, England, 1927 – Vancouver, Canada, 1999) and Luman Coad (Buhl, Idaho, USA…
Romanian puppet theatre established by Horia Davidescu in 1955 in Craiova. In 1998, the theatre was renamed Teatrul pentru copii și tineret Colibri (Colibri Theatre for Children and Youth)…
Family of Italian puppeteers, still represented by two companies. According to family tradition the activities of the Colla family go back to Gaspare Carlo Gioacchino Colla…
The Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia) has an ethnically diverse population, contributing to a diverse cultural heritage. Indigenous peoples include the Muisca, Quimbaya…
Overlaps between commedia dell’arte and puppet shows have been occurring since the birth of professional theatre in the middle of the 16th century…
French director and actor. Patrick Conan worked in amateur theatre before becoming a professional actor in 1977. Ten years later he created his own company…
French fine artist and puppeteer. In 1934, when he was leading the life of both painter and ceramicist (in Lunéville, his style tending towards Art Deco)…
The Republic of the Congo (French: République du Congo), also known as Congo-Brazzaville or Congo Republic, located in Central Africa, is bordered by Gabon…
American university level puppetry programme. The Puppet Arts Program at the University of Connecticut is the only academic institution in the United States to offer degrees in puppetry at three levels…
Romanian puppet and stage designer. After her studies at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Ella Conovici joined the puppet theatre in Bucharest that was soon to be renamed Țăndărică (today…
Romanian puppet theatre established in 1956 in Constanța as part of the city theatre Teatrul de Stat Constanța (Constanța State Theatre) by director Claudiu Cristescu…
Romanian stage designer and illustrator. Lena Constante was associated with the early years of Țăndarică Puppet Theatre (today, Teatrul de animaţie Ţăndărică), from 1945 to 1948…
Romanian stage and puppet designer. Ioana Constantinescu worked for Țăndărică Puppet Theatre (today, Teatrul de animaţie Ţăndărică) from 1949 to 1964…
Flat and dimensional building materials shaped in a variety of ways.
Flat Materials
Flat materials can include, but are not limited to, card stock…
Indian puppeteer, director, artist, teacher, and author of books on puppetry. Meher Contractor (known as Meherbehn) was a major figure in Indian puppetry arts, recognized as much for her creative work (an abstract style as opposed to the epic realism influenced by Sergei Obraztsov then adopted in India) as for her contribution to the development of puppetry in education…
The sum of fixed or mobile pieces used to attach the strings of a puppet, to suspend it, and to manipulate its different parts.
These pieces…
French puppeteer. Son of a magician who established the puppet booth (French: castelet) at the Buttes-Chaumont in Paris in 1890…
The Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica), a country in Central America, was sparsely inhabited by indigenous people before it came under Spanish rule in the 16th century…
A form of puppet with the manipulator inside, often equipped with a harness and/or a helmet and/or shoulder-belt on which the figure is mounted. To bring the figure to life…
The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (French: République de Côte d’Ivoire; in English known as Ivory Coast) is a country in West Africa…
American teaching laboratory for contemporary puppetry and performing objects, a Center within the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, Los Angeles County, United States…
Bamana puppeteer from Mali. From a family of carvers and puppetmasters, Yaya Coulibaly was initiated in youth into arts which occupy a high place in initiation rites…
British scenographer, director, theoretician and author, also fine artist and actor. Only son of the actress Ellen Terry and the architect and stage designer Edward Godwin…
Belgian actors’ theatre established in 1978 by Francis Houtteman and Françoise Flabat. In its search for a medium of expression, Créa-Théâtre adopted puppetry in 1982 but had already made it a key tool in its first show…