LSP student goes on Danish TV

As mentioned in the previous post, an LSP student went on Danish TV to promote the Copenhagen Puppet Festival with one of the festival organisers. Kay performed her puppet "Yorick" on the Danish Breakfast show, "Brunch" (Danish TV2/Lorry, 24/3/09). Kay was also asked questions about what students learn at LSP, as well as talking (briefly) about how she got into puppetry. Below is a link with snippets of the interview:

Many hands make 'light' work: Glove puppetry in Yorkshire

Today was the first day of our 2-day Glove Puppetry Playtime workshop in Yorkshire. We explored the movement of the hands and created scenarios using props (e.g. hats, gloves, etc); did some improvised body percussion sequences; operated hand puppets using a raised play board; as well as devised a 'hand ballet'.

Below are some photos and a video clip taken during the day.

Exploring the various shapes and movement of the bare hand.

Emma, Emma and Kate having fun improvising collaborative hand compositions.

A 'hand ballet' sequence based on the song, "Losing My Mind" by Ute Lemper. We each took turns being the 'central' character (which involved quite a bit of team work!). We discovered that what worked best in the piece is the use of repeated movements (or 'phrases'), which were emphasised more each time.