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Rod puppet has a main rod to hold the puppets and two thin Rods attached with two hands. These two rods also hold by other hand of puppeteer. It is operated from below stage.Bil Baird in his books ‘The art of the puppet says, “Bengal had created a rod puppet style which I believe moved eastward with Hinduism and became the wayang golek (Java) performed with three dimensional wooden figures that are manipulated with rods”. So India has a long tradition...
Thursday, February 5, 2009
7:54 AM
Smt. Pilla Nirmala
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Glove puppets are also known as sleeve, hand or palm puppets the head is made of either paper mache, cloth or wood, with two hands emerging from just below the neck. The rest of the figure consists of a long following skirt. These puppets are like limp dolls, but in the hands of able puppeteer, are capable of producing a wide range of moments. The manipulation technique is simple, the moments are controlled by the human hands, the fist finger...
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- Smt. Pilla Nirmala
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Puppets can be broadly classified into FOUR categories based on the mode of manipulation. These are marionettes, shadow puppets, Rod puppets, Glove puppets, Finger puppets and fist puppets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glove Orissa – Sakhi kundai Kerala -- Pava Koothu/Pava kathakali West Bengal – Bener putul Nach Uttar Pradesh -- Gulabo Sitabo ------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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