London School of Puppetry

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From September 29th to October 12th WaxBaby Productions is joining up with the London School of Puppetry for a unique celebration of puppetry.

Every evening WaxBaby will present iDOLLEyes a wierdly wonderful collection of puppetry pieces verging on installation art, cabaret and performance. During the daytime, the London School of Puppetry will run a schools’ programme of Animated Shakespeare; training for puppeteers by international artists such as Yuki Muramatsu from Japan; and a symposium on the use of puppets in education and therapy. Not to be missed!

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A New Season of Mini Courses starts in September with the highly skilled Japanese puppeteer Yuki Muramatsu introducing Wayang Kulit (indonesian Shadow Puppet Theatre.  Yuki has represented Japan at Asian Puppet Theatre Festivals. She now trains under the great Asian masters of puppetry in Japan, but all her early training was with the London School of Puppetry where she took both the Diploma and ToP Courses.

The Marionette Mini-Course will look especially at the Marionette as a therapeutic tool. Students will be able to operate marionettes and play with them exploring the kinaesthetic  links between human and puppet action.

A number of students have requested a course exploring human-sized puppets- this will be covered in the Rod-Puppetry Mini Course where different kinds of controls  and operating techniques will be developed. Read more…

• See Fees and Bursaries for Fees or specific details on website

• London Marionette Carving and Operating Summer School July 8-10th, 12th-14th fees £200
• Shadow Theatre Summer School Yorkshire 9-16 August  fees £300

• Shadow Puppetry SU1 (PPD/PACe/CcLipP/ToP)9th August- 6th September.
• Special Wayang Kulit Shadow Course with Yuki Muramatsu from Japan September 30, Oct, 1st/2nd

• Business Strategies for the Puppeteer plus Season at the Rosemary Branch Theatre SU6 (PPD/DiPP) London 30th September -12th October (plus previous distance learning)

• Marionette Theatre SU4 (PPD/PACe/CcLipP/ToP)Yorkshire/London 27th October-26th November

• Marionette MiniCourse 24-26th November London (The therapeutic use of the string puppet)
• Rod Puppetry SU3 (PPD/PACe/CcLipP/ToP)Yorkshire 5th January-5th February 2009
• Rod Puppetry MiniCourse London 2nd-4th February 2009 (Human sized puppets)
• Hand/Glove/Body Puppetry SU2 (PPD/PACe/CcLipP/ToP) Yorkshire/London March 1-31st 2009
• Hand/Glove/Body Puppetry MiniCourse London 30th March-1st April 2009 (Storytelling in Education and the Glove Puppet)

The dates are provisional as where possible we work around student availability. PPD students are required to take modules consecutively as they are listed. Short Courses consist of two Units each. These may be selected from the list. The two Units may be taken at any time with any length of time between them. Although applicants for the PPD and Short Courses (CCLipP or PACe) are required to be interviewed, Mini Courses and Summer Schools are completely open.