Light Sources in the Newer Old World – Overhead Projectors and Shadow Puppetry
In the second installment of the School of Puppetry’s shadow workshop trilogy, Erin Fleck, Co-Artistic Director of Caterwaul Theatre, will lead participants through the opportunities and innovations possible when creating shadow puppetry and projection pieces with “old school” overhead projectors as their primary light source. Participants will experiment with different puppet materials and elements (found images, water, translucent materials and acetate) and combine them with more traditional elements of shadow puppetry and puppet screen work.
About Erin Fleck – Caterwaul Theatre
Caterwaul Theatre was founded by Erin Fleck and Sarah Fairlie in September 2013. Both Fleck and Fairlie have long been active within Toronto’s theatre, music and visual art scenes.
Caterwaul produces innovative and immersive storytelling in puppetry, analog projection and stop-motion film.
Caterwaul’s inaugural production of Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales, premiered at the 2014 SummerWorks Theatre Festival to much acclaim, and winning the NTS Design Award. They returned to SummerWorks in 2015 with the Music Series collaboration Heat Shuts Off Overnight with the band Germaphobes, and again in 2016 as part of the collaborative and performance team for Georgina Beaty’s Extremophiles (Critic’s Pick, NOW Magazine).
Caterwaul has created music video, live projections and puppet installations for various bands and events throughout Toronto (including Long Winter, Camp Wavelength), travelled to Dawson City, Yukon for an artist residency with the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, and facilitated shadow puppet creation and performance workshops with the Hamilton Children’s Choir, Toronto’s Girls Art League, as well as a giant interactive snow globe for the Harbourfront Centre’s HarbourKIDS winter programming.