Teaching philosophies in Puppet Theatre Puppeteer – actor-puppeteer - performer

[Puppet theatre as teaching strategy: a report of the experience].

The Didactics Applied to Care discipline is developed in the fifth semester of the nursing graduation course. It develops several theoretical-practical contents, among them, the teaching strategy. Our objective is to report the experience with the use of puppet theater to promote the oral health of children in a day nursery in the São Paulo East Zone. With this report we make it clear that the ...

Thèenvironmental Puppeteer' Revisited: a Connectionist Perspective On`autonomy'

Today's `autonomous' robots only have very limited autonomy and are in fact very much under the control of thèenvironmental puppeteer', i.e their behaviour is determined, via virtual strings, by environmental conditions. Hence, it has been stated as the goal of modern scientiic robotics to \cut the strings and give the robot its autonomy". Diierent notions of autonomy in artefacts and living sy...

Traditional Shadow Puppet Play - The Virtual Way

In this paper, we present a virtual shadow puppet play application that allows real-time play of the puppet and gives the user the impression of being a storyteller or a shadow play puppeteer. Through this tool, everybody can be a puppeteer digitally regardless of the ability to perform the traditional art.

Actor Training and Techniques in Pieśń Kozła Theatre

An Intelligent Instructional Tool for Puppeteering in Virtual Shadow Puppet Play

Shadow puppet play has been a popular storytelling tradition for many centuries in many parts of Asia. In this paper, we present an initial idea and architecture of a software tool that allows people to experience shadow puppet play in the virtual world. Normally, a virtual puppet show is controlled automatically by the application. However, our tool allows the user to create storyline and cont...