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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"puppetry"”.
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The Incorporation of Puppetry into Reading Instruction
In this study, the use of puppetry was explored as a mediational means for students' comprehension while reading a variety of texts. Seven first grade students from a rural school district took part in this study. The study took place over the course of five weeks and included students using …
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Connections Between Voice and Design in Puppetry: A Case-Study
Puppets have been entertaining, educating, and mesmerizing American audiences since the birth of our nation. Both in live theatrical events and TV/film, audiences have watched puppeteers bring their puppet characters to life with clever voice quality choices, unique characterizations, and vivid …
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Toby Dick Ellis: Richard Elsenpeter's career in tent repertoire theatre, television, and marionette puppetry
Richard Elsenpeter was a Midwestern actor who began his career in repertoire and circle stock in the mid-twentieth century. He dedicated his life to the pursuit of rural, family entertainment and took pleasure in entertaining the common people of rural communities. Elsenpeter made important …
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The use of puppetry in dramatherapy to enhance communication, especially in children with an autism spectrum disorder
… purposes are discussed and (3) therapeutic puppetry will be further identified by using case studies to show how therapeutic puppetry can elicit communication. This dissertation also aims to bring about more awareness on dramatherapy on a national level.
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Plot 99 : towards a feminine semiotic : spiritual and sexual emergence(y) in women's puppetry and visual performance
… through the cross-disciplinary medium of puppetry and visual performance. It investigates puppetry's relevance to the developing academic field of Practice as Research in performance. It considers the theoretical and creative applications of this multidisciplinary art form in the …
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
This project argues that traditional puppetry offers a practice-based approach to think through political and ethical issues in technology and communication. Drawing on three summers of ethnographic participant engagement at Bread and Puppet Theater, a historic and internationally famous political …
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The Quest for Life and Intelligence in Digital Puppets.
… practice-based research study proposes digital puppetry as a solution to this problem. My focus is on credibility as opposed to realism: the expectation is that the characters will behave in a puppet-like manner as opposed to manifesting the aesthetics – in terms of both movement and visual …
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Towards a national puppet centre for the Lebanon
… long way in the direction towards abstraction is puppetry. From the times of the Pharaohs and Mesopotamians, puppets and masked actors communicated myths and legends in religious rituals and festivals. Later, puppets continued under Islam to communicate secular themes and narratives. Puppets, by …
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Infecting the Inanimate: Puppet Theatre Responds to Aids
… acontribution to the discourse.I investigate how puppetry artists have addressed the illness by examining threecase studies, each with a different relationship to the virus and a different target audience.The first case is that of an infected artist, Robert Anton, who performed for a very …
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Best Practices to Promote Racial Unity in Theatre
… in many mediums mentioned in this thesis such as puppetry, Theatre of the Oppressed, forum theatre, and more. Not every process or production will be right for your ensemble, but these practices could offer a valuable resource nonetheless.</p>
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Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
… relevant technologies to develop a robotic puppetry system for a zoomorphic personal robot and develop three different puppeteering interfaces to control the robot: the website interface, wearable interface, and sympathetic interface. The wearable interface was examined through a performance …
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Grant Proposal for the Establishment of an Art Therapy Program at the Family Resource Center of Salinas/Seaside Facility of Monterey County
… as shown through art therapy, role play, puppetry, and sand tray, allows them to express their feelings and thoughts in safe terms (Cooper, 1978). Information about children can be assessed through not only the outcome of the art but also through the art process. Children often are able to …
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Objects in Protest: Bread and Puppet Theater's (Non)Human Solidarities
… feminist materialism, circus studies, and puppetry studies, I consider both the bread and the puppets as they intersect with various assemblages and fields of interpretation. These configurations demonstrate how the objects embody (non)human, material, and conceptual aspects. Because of …
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Encouraging the expression of the unspeakable : influence and agency in a robotic creature
… vocal sounds. I draw from the world of puppetry and performing objects in the creation of syngvab the object and its stage, showing how this old tradition is directly relevant for the development of non-anthropomorphic, non-zoomorphic robotic creatures. I show how this mongrel of an …
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Art Educators and Practicing Artists: Strengthening the Curriculum and Building a Creative Community
… students engaged in learning through the art of puppetry. This qualitative research supports learning in multiple subject areas through observation of skills and reflections given by students and teachers. I have learned that arts integrated residencies and curriculum can positively affect the …
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Free to Play: An Analysis in Aesthetic, Ethical, and Religious Movements
… light of children's play, videogames, gambling, puppetry, or improvisation, the iterations of play and playful identity under consideration in this study. Learning about the apprehension, negotiation, and appreciation of boundaries that occurs in play grants us a more nuanced understanding of …
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
… 4,000-year old world-renowned performance art of puppetry, and audience participation, respectively. What ultimately emerges from the analysis of Miranda's surrealist paintings is an understanding of the symbolic nature of not only recovery, but above all resilience from trauma across a plethora …
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Capturing what is of value to children : a study exploring the challenges, advantages and issues of participatory research with 5 and 6 year olds
… the children in their filming. These included puppetry, drawing, guided tours, interviewing, play and opportunities for filming at home. The children and their class teachers were invited to review and discuss the video clips with the researcher. A thematic content analysis was used to code and …
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… in his 1988 film Alice, utilizes the effects of puppetry and stop-motion animation in order to create a Wonderland of defamiliarized objects characterized by the Todorovian fantastic. Finally, in the third chapter, I argue that, in his 2010 adaptation of Carroll’s Alice stories, Tim Burton, …
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