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are dedicated to nurturing the unique creativity of your own
expression, through the exploration and practice of contemporary
methods with passionate, intelligent, and informed artist-instructors.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago.
CTA Trains/Buses: Red Line to Addison or Belmont, Brown line
to Belmont, Clark Bus to Clark/Newport. Driving: parking is
a challenge, there are meters and residential codes apply.
Pay lots are available up to $20. Please call us for directions,
suggestions. Links Hall is a second floor walk-up; there is
no elevator or escalator.
For more information or to register for
any of the following workshops contact Erica or CJ at 773.281.0824
or info@linkshall.org.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield
Avenue, convenient to the Addison Red Line El stop.
CLASS POLICIES
Classes are usually open to all participants with at least
beginning/intermediate skills in body/mind awareness (such
as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.)
Please wear bare feet and comfortable clothing, and arrive
at least 5 minutes prior to class to sign in and change. Refunds
only in cases of illness or injury.
Please check the Links Hall bulletin board
for independent dance and movement
classes that are going on in the space.
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Tabletop
Puppetry
Ronald Binion and Amanda Maddock
Saturday, January 20, 10 am-2 pm
$30
Tabletop Puppetry is a form of team puppetry that allows one to
produce a performance of a puppet character that can be seen from
head to toe, or "full-bodied." This form of puppetry requires
team building and knowledge of specific tools, as well as an understanding
of each role a puppeteer will play in the ensemble performance.
This workshop will give participants a general knowledge of the
basic requirements of tabletop puppetry, an understanding of the
performers’ roles, and hands-on exercises to put into practice
concepts learned during the course.
Because tabletop puppetry requires multiple puppeteers, the opportunities
to learn and train are few. However, this style of puppetry is being
used more frequently in television in the use of green screen and
blue screen puppetry, and also in theater with Czech black puppetry
and other overt styles that use full body figures. It is likely
that puppeteers will be called upon to perform in some configuration
of team puppetry, and having an understanding of basic underlying
principles will benefit them in their career. No prior experience
necessary; to register please contact Erica at emott@linkshall.org
or 773.281.0824.
Amanda Maddock is a puppet artist for theater and television, creating,
building and performing her own work as well as making a living
as a commercial puppeteer. TV performance credits include: Eminem's
Ass Like That music video, Lazy Town, The Book of Pooh, Sesame Street,
and Bear in the Big Blue House. Her puppet building has been spotted
on Crank Yankers, Saturday Night Live, and the Broadway production
of Wicked. She currently works with Puppet Heap, a design company
in New York City providing characters for every aspect of commercial
puppetry in theater, film, and television. Her original works have
been seen at the National Puppetry Conference, St. Ann's Labapalooza
in Brooklyn, the Henson International Puppetry Festival, the Henson
PatCH series in NYC, and the Puppets in the Green Mountains festival
in Vermont. She has studied at Sandglass Theater's puppetry institute
as well as at the University of Connecticut Puppet Arts program.
In 2005, Mrs. Wright's Escape was one of four shows to headline
the Voice for Vision Puppetry Festival in NYC.
Ronald Binion is an Emmy-award winning puppeteer, designer, and
builder based in New York City. He has worked as a puppeteer at
the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Henson Workshop, for Crank Yankers,
Sesame Street, Lazytown, The Book of Pooh, and Eminem's Making the
Ass. He has repeatedly been a featured artist at the National Puppetry
Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Institute. www.transformedpuppet.com
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