Or Pop-up Shadow Book with Ingrid Hansen of SNAFU Theatre
Please note this workshop’s date has been moved – NOW FIXED FOR SUNDAY JUNE 26. ($100 + $20 materials) Total Fee $120
Bring a simple story or a collection of images and we will transform them into a shadow puppetry book you can take home with you and have handy to perform at a moment’s notice. You will be guided through a process of transforming your story into graphic-novel-inspired shadow puppetry. This is a very simple, accessible and elegant form of LED shadow puppetry, made up mostly of still-frame images with very few moving figures, so that one person can puppeteer the entire story on their own. Learn to build your own pop-up cardboard mini-theatre to project your shadow puppetry at parties, events, or even on the street corner. With this technique, the puppeteer can direct the viewer’s eye in a very filmic way, zooming in and out of sections, and making a dance of light and shadow.
Fable of ‘The Seamstress and the Clock An example of Ingrid performing in the character of a twelve year old girl, sharing a shadow puppetry flip book that tells the story of “The Seamstress and the Clock”
Ingrid Hansen trained first as a dancer, then as an actor, mover, and theatre creator, and then worked for four years as a lead puppeteer on the children’s television series Tiga Talk! on APTN. Ingrid trained in puppetry with former Sesame Street puppeteer Tim Gosley, and with Old Trout puppeteer Peter Balkwill at the Banff National Arts Centre. She teaches puppetry to actors, dancers, adults, children, and prison inmates. Ingrid recently co-directed The Prison Puppet Project with Peter Balkwill and the inmates at a federal prison in British Columbia. Currently she is touring her award-winning object puppetry shows Snack Music and Little Orange Man across Canada, while also running her theatre company SNAFU.