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Keeping It Simple
Presented by Beau Brown, Director/Puppeteer, The Puckin’ Fuppet Show and Dragon Con Puppetry Track.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
Perfect is the enemy of done. Puppetry is the art of storytelling with objects and the objects can easily overwhelm an idea. This can lead to a show ballooning into overly complicated puppets, too many props, and possibly missing deadlines because you ended up in the weeds. In this workshop we will boil ideas down to their very core components. By putting restrictions on our creative process we will journey from conception to performance over the course of the 3 day workshop.
Materials: Cardboard, Hot Glue, Markers, Utility Knives
Presentation: Table top style with a single visible puppeteer. No spoken dialogue.
By having the puppeteer’s face visible we will experiment with directing focus between the 3 elements necessary for puppetry: the object, the puppeteer, and the audience. We will draw inspiration from the work of Bernd Ogrodnik, Jordi Bertran, and Burr Tillstrom.
Schedule
Friday: 7:00-9:30 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
*Patrons must attend all 3 days.
LEVEL: Intermediate (some puppetry experience suggested)
About the Presenter
Puppeteer | Producer
Beau Brown
Beau is a puppeteer, producer, host, and has been part of Atlanta’s thriving puppetry community for nearly 3 decades since interning here at the Center for Puppetry Arts in high school. Beau produces and hosts Atlanta’s open mic puppet slam, The Puckin’ Fuppet Show. He created and produces the Puppetry Track at Dragon Con, featuring 50+ hours of puppetry programming including celebrities, performances, workshops, and panels celebrating puppetry in pop culture and introducing convention goers to the art of live puppet theatre. He produces and hosts The National Puppet Slam, featuring the best adult short form puppet theatre from across the country. As a member of the New Puppet Order he has created short puppet films featuring a wide array of puppetry styles and tones. He most recently took a 10 day puppet wood carving workshop in the Czech Republic thanks to a scholarship from the Atlanta Puppetry Guild and performed as a principal puppeteer in Sesame Street: the Musical at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Keep up with what Beau has coming up next at: https://linktr.ee/mrbeaubrown.