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Welcome
to Animations Online!
Animations is a quarterly online magazine run
by the Puppet Centre Trust. It is a voice for
contemporary puppetry and related theatre forms,
offering discussion and debate on recent puppet-theatre
events, reviews, and news from the puppet community
and elsewhere. It's an essential read for anyone
interested in puppetry in all its diverse manifestations.
Animations Online aims to represent the full spectrum
of professional practice, from traditional puppetry
to experimental visual theatre using puppetry
or animation.
In this e-dition of Animations, we have an interesting
and varied selection of features.
In Puppets
on the Streets
Dorothy Max Prior sees The Sultan's Elephant and
reflects on the power of large-scale puppetry
in public spaces. Linked to this, in our second
feature Welfare,
Farewell Beccy Smith reports on Welfare State International's
last ever gig - Longline The Carnival Opera. In
What
a Site! Christine
Marfleet reflects on the origins of an artistic
collaboration that led to the inauguration of
a site-specific puppetry in performance strand
at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Last but not least - A
Fabulous Beast in which Penny Francis visits the reborn Unicorn Theatre
for Children.
Kazuko
Hohki: Objects Of Contemplation is our company profile for this e-dition.
In
our reviews
section,
there's the usual very varied mix of puppetry
and visual theatre shows that use puppetry or
object animation.
From
the Frontline is
our new section which brings first-person reports from artists
working in puppet theatre or with puppetry in any context.
In this section, both established and emerging artists have
a voice and a space to write about their work. In this, the
second in the series, we hear from Mandy Travis of Lost & Found Theatre. If you would like to
contribute to this section, please email
The
News
and Noticeboard section is the place to read about the current and future plans of puppeteers
and puppet-theatre companies, and to catch up
on other news and events.
We
hope you enjoy this latest e-dition of Animations Online -
as always, your feedback is very welcome!
We
look forward to hearing your news, views and suggestions
for future content.
Please
send your news items and suggestions for editorial content
to
Animations
Online editorial team:
Dorothy
Max Prior - editor
Beccy
Smith - project manager/ PCT director
Penny Francis - contributing editor/
PCT board representative
Matthew Isaac Cohen - contributing editor
Design/webmaster > Gabz
Digital Media
The views expressed or opinions
stated in Animations Online are those of the writers
and not necessarily those of the publisher, Puppet
Centre Trust.
Reasonable care has been taken to ensure
that information is correct, but no liability
will be accepted for any errors which may occur.
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