PUPPETEER – PUPPETPLAYER – PERFORMER Cover Image

BÁBKAR – BÁBKOHEREC – PERFORMER
PUPPETEER – PUPPETPLAYER – PERFORMER

Author(s): Henryk Jurkowski
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Aesthetics, Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: dehumanizácia umenia; bábkar; bábkoherec; performer; Upanišády; materiál; tvorivá energia;

Summary/Abstract: Author speaks about animated puppet being a part of the theatre art. The eminent drama writer and theatre philosophs has given it their thoughts and opinions: Samuel Foote, Heinrich von Kleis, Gordon Edward Craig. They considered to be important part of theatre while animated by the puppeteers. Author ennumerates various types of puppetplayers: puppeteer nugget, puppeteer profesionalist, puppetplayer-actor, educated in the theatre school. The last one ignores often importance of the puppet and dismisses it by his own presence. The author proposes in his place another player that is puppeteer performer, who is couscious of the creative energy existing in each material (puppet included) and is wishing to demonstrate this energy and to serve it.

  • Issue Year: 64/2016
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 93-98
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Slovak