Advanced Marionette Manipulation - Phillip Huber
GOAL: To de-mystify the process of marionette manipulation & performance.
These stringed figures are rightfully regarded as one of the most complex & difficult of puppetry forms. However, when they are approached with patience & an eye for the most simple & direct path of expression, they become graceful, poetic actors & entertainers… highly amplified extensions of their human manipulators.
DESCRIPTION: Phillip Huber will instruct and guide participants through an intensive & advanced study of marionette manipulation, revealing the influencing factors of stringing, control, & marionette design. Special emphasis will be placed on “Cabaret Style” performance (short-strung marionettes). Participants will be taken through the process of developing & refining a brief marionette performance piece.
PARTICIPANT PREPARATION: Each participant MUST bring a marionette that they do not mind modifying (joints, stringing, controller) for the purpose of developing specific movements & character attitude. Also, please bring 2 or 3 pieces of music (each 2 minutes or less) that you feel would make a good background for the marionette performance. This music can be on CD, cassette or keyboard sheet music.
Marionette Design & Construction - Jim Rose
Jim Rose offers a thorough examination of marionette design, layout, and contruction methods for the creation of a new marionette. Participants will have the opportunity to build a complete marionette from a precut kit.
Total Maximum enrollment- 12 students |
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Phillip Huber |
Phillip HUBER, is best known for his marionette manipulation in the 3-time Academy Award nominated film BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. However, his puppetry career has taken him around the world many times with performances in nightclubs; LIDO, Paris, CASINO DE MONTE CARLO, Monaco; television, THE TONIGHT SHOW with Jay Leno, LE PLUS GRANDE CABARET DU MONDE (France), VARIETE (Chile); stage shows, BUSKER ALLEY with Tommy Tune, THAT'S CHRISTMAS with Sandy Duncan, CHRISTMAS WITH FRIENDS & NABORS with Jim Nabors, IT'S MAGIC with Harry Anderson, THE ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD directed by Walter Bobby; art museums DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY with Tony Oursler and Dan Graham, and 5-star cruise ships, CRYSTAL, CUNARD, SEABOURN. Mr. Huber most recently designed, built, & performed 5 marionettes in a new film, TILLAMOOK TREASURE, due in theaters this summer. |
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| Jim Rose |
| JIM ROSE, son of Rufus and Margo Rose, first performed with marionettes in 1943 in the Rose production of "Rip Van Winkle." He has performed with his own hand puppets since 1947, when he saw Burr Tillstrom's Puppeteers of America Festival performance of Kukla and Ollie in "St. George and the Dragon." Jim worked with his parents and with Martin and Olga Stevens on several film and TV productions, including the WGN-TV Peabody Award-winning "The Blue Fairy" and the Stevens-Rose film, "The Toymaker." |
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He was graduated from Antioch College in 1956. While a student there he appeared in over 40 plays, of which 14 were by William Shakespeare. At the Yale School of Drama, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1963, he created puppets for a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and for adaptations of two of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
Mr. Rose taught Drama, Art and English in high schools in Chicago and in Connecticut from 1956 until 1960. He taught, for two years, in the Theater Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and for 19 years, at Antioch College. He has also led numerous workshops at Puppeteers of America Festivals and has taught in the Rose Marionette Workshop at the National Puppetry Conference, held at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Foundation, in Waterford, Connecticut.
Since 1982, Mr. Rose has presented his traditional puppets in annual 18th century fairs in The Fair at New Boston, near Springfield, Ohio, at The Faire at the Forks, in Chatham, Ontario, at the Trail of History in McHenry County, Illinois, and at George Washington.s Mount Vernon in Virginia. |
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