OBJECT THEATRE WORKSHOP
November 2008

Teacher:
Rene Baker (Spain)
Puppeteer Rene Baker outlines her approach to using puppets for actor training. In her work in Britain and Spain, she has honed techniques using puppets and performing objects to teach actors principles of ensemble, self-awareness and spatial relations. Puppets clarify movement and allow the actor to disentangle her personal life with the emotions of characters portrayed. Working with puppets yields a generous actor who is aware that she is only one element of a stage work. The actor becomes self aware, not self-conscious, and never feels alone on stage, as she always has the object with her.

Description of the course:
Bringing Puppets and Objects to Life:
Exercises, games and improvisations to develop various aspects of animating the inanimate: training the puppeteer’s body: flexibility, peripheral vision, projecting energygenerating movement in the object: allowing, repeating, using impulseunderstanding emotion and thought in the puppet: rhythm, posture, gesture, relationshiplinking voice and movement.

Time:
3.-14.11.2008
weeks 45 and 46
mon-fri 9:00-12:00
30 hours total teaching hours

Place:
Helsinki, Finland

Price:
250€

Inscriptions:
soile(at)metamorfoosi.com