ephemeral animation
- VENUE: The Central School of Speech and Drama DATES & TIMES: Fri 30 & Sat 31 Oct, 10am - 5pm COST: £50 / £25 students
EPHEMERAL ANIMATION
A two-day workshop will be run by Nenagh Watson of Barking Dog Theatre and Creative Fellow at CSSD.
Ephemeral Animation is a term coined by Nenagh Watson to encourage appreciation of animation, often momentary, of discarded objects animated via natural elements. The plastic bag blowing and dancing in the wind in the film American Beauty has become a cultural reference point. Void of the interruption of human ego, these fragmentary experiences have a lot to tell us about the art form of puppetry.
This two-day workshop will encourage debate and exploration, stripping the art form to its raw essential state. We will examine Kantor's fascination with objects and 'puppetry without ego': how can we allow something to have its own intrinsic presence, its own immanence, provoking questions of what is authentic; and how can we engage audience in this appreciation?
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION IS BY APPLICATION IN ADVANCE: please send your CV and a letter of application to cariad.astles@cssd.ac.uk by Tuesday 15 September 2009.
