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Learn all about marionettes and puppets in this free instructional guide to the art of puppetry.
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Learn about various types of marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to work the strings of a marionette in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about various types of complex marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about various types of single-string marionette exercises in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about various types of two-string marionette exercises in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about the logic of stringing a marionette in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to change the string placement of marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about various types of three-string marionette exercises in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about string distance for operating marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to work scarf puppet marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how scarf puppet marionettes work in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to use marionette controls in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to create body language in marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to work the hand controls of marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to move complex marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to use complex marionette controls in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to make the face of a marionette in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn how to move marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Learn about the construction of marionettes in this free video guide to puppets and marionettes.
Marionettes are wooden puppets attached to strings and controlled by a puppeteer above them with the attached strings. The use of marionettes has been around since ancient Greece. Archimedes was known to have worked with puppets and Plato and Aristotle make reference to puppets throughout all of their works. Their use continued through Europe during the Dark and Middle Ages, and on through the Renaissance to today. Used for many different reasons, making and using marionettes is a fun and historically deep practice and art and the experts at ExpertVillage want to help continue this ancient puppeteering practice.
In this free video series, watch as freelance designer Emily DeCola teaches all about marionettes. Learn how to work the strings, the different types of marionettes, how to string a marionette, how to build and operate a marionette, and how to control the puppet's face. Get real puppet making tips and instructions in these step by step online videos.
Emily DeCola Emily DeCola, is a freelance designer, performer and director working all over the world with puppetry and masks on stage and in television and film. She is based in New York City. Her puppets and performances can been seen on screen in "LazyTown" (Nickelodeon), "Johnny and the Sprites" (Disney), "Moonfishing" (David Michael Friend), "Huyghe Le Corbusier" (Pierre Huyghe) and "Katalog" (Cipher Productions). She's a student of Master Marionnettist, Albrecht Roser, a member of his Meisterklasse, and has studied with Dan Hurlin and The SITI company, among others. DeCola is a proud recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant, the 2004 UNIMA Grant for International Study in Puppetry, a YES Foundation Fellowship, and a series of great studio space grants from Chashama. She is thrilled that puppets are "finally hip!"dkdk
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