Making Meaning in Puppetry

Foreword

John Bell

Introduction: Recentering the Puppet

Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and Alissa Mello

PART 1

Materials

1 Reading the Material of Performance

Dassia N. Posner

2 Notes on a Material Dramaturgy

Laura Purcell-Gates

3 A "Paper" Leviathan: Metaphor and Materiality in the Blair Thomas & Company Moby Dick

Skye Strauss

4 Aesthetics of Precarity: The Vindicating Materiality of Silencio Blanco's Puppetry

Carlos A. Ortiz

5 Chambre Noire: Relational Puppetry and Female Embodiment in the Puppetry of Yngvild Aspeli and Plexus Polaire

Felice Amato

6 Materializing the Immaterial: Puppets and Masks of Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma)

Kathy Foley

PART 2

Practice

7 The Radicality of the Potato People

Denise Rogers Valenzuela

8 The Puppet Body as Performance Archive

Jane Catherine Shaw

9 Lost in Object Translation: Reading Meaning in Traditional Japanese Puppetry

Claudia Orenstein

10 Queer Thinking of Puppetry

Heather Jeanne Denyer

11 Puppets and Dead Kings in Brazilian Theatre: Heiner Muller, Ophelias, and Recurrent Hamletian Machines

Mayumi Ilari

12 Puppetry and Technoculture

Lawrence Switzky

PART 3

Perception

13 The Relationality of Puppet Life

Dawn Tracey Brandes

14 In Your Sight and In Your Mind: The Puppeteer as Cognitive Guide in Koryu- Nishikawa V and Tom Lee's

Shank's Mare

Ana Diaz Barriga

15 Puppets, Perception, and the Uncanny: Watching Performances Through a Cognitive Lens

Pia Banzhaf

16 Puppetry as Phenomena

Kate Brehm

17 Thinking through the Hand: Understanding the Puppet through Practice, Gesture, and Touch in the Work of Handspring Puppet Company

Emma Smith Minkley

Afterword

Will Bixby