PUPPET MANIPULATION
Puppet manipulation begins with the performer’s body.
This workshop explores the relationship between breath, focus and physical clarity as the foundation for bringing an object to life.
Participants work with simple articulated puppets to explore how intention travels through space. Rather than “handling” an object, the practice emphasises listening—allowing weight, pause and rhythm to guide action. When focus is sustained, movement appears to arise from the puppet itself.
Presence is essential. Even a brief loss of attention can break the illusion. Through exercises in breath and focus, performers learn to sustain continuity, so that thinking, deciding and reacting seem to belong to the puppet rather than the puppeteer.
The work continually returns to the performer’s own physical structure. Through spinal articulation, subtle shifts and counter-movement, participants learn to separate impulse from execution, transferring expression with restraint and clarity. The aim is not technical display, but a quiet precision where body and object share the same life.
Available for conservatoires, festivals and professional training programs, and independent participants — no prior experience required.
