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04 May 2012 A seriously awesome giant puppet

This is a seriously awesome giant puppet, created by the UK's brilliant Blind Summit Theatre for a production of Xavier Montsalvatge's opera El Gato con Botas ("Puss in Boots") in...

08 Feb 2012 Highly Strung in Australia

Dave Jones recently wrote in to share his amazing outdoor performance piece Highly Strung, which combined large scale puppetry and animated projections....

23 Jan 2012 Monday Morning Inspiration: Underwater Dragon Dance

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Chinese Spring Festival. Lion and Dragon dances featuring giant puppets are a staple of the festivities in Chinese communities around the world, but to celebrate the Year of the Water Dragon children in Bangkok were recently treated to a special,...

07 Nov 2011 Muppets on the cover of Wired Magazine

Apologies for a lack of recent updates; as so often is the case, life and work conspired to keep me preoccupied last week, but here's a look at what was happening while I wasn't...

24 Jul 2010 More Giant Marionettes

Just following up on my recent post about the giant Mayflower marionette commercial, above is the Australian TV spot that I referred to that also features a giant marionette. If, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Royal DeLuxe should feel extremely flattered. Giant marionettes like theirs have been turning up...

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