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Master IT | Practical Possibilities with Puppetry
The Last Great Hunt’s Master IT | Practical Possibilities with Puppetry workshop has been CANCELLED due to COVID 19 lockdowns in NSW and VIC.
A workshop on embedding puppetry in performance work, presented by The Last Great Hunt
Where: The Street Theatre
Wed 21 July 11am – 1pm
Thurs 22 July 11am – 1pm
Places: up to 15 artists working with puppetry in their performance work or wanting to.
Award-winning company The Last Great Hunt are back at the end July with New Owner – a performance work combining puppetry, live action and animation, that takes us on a world of adventure through a dog’s eyes. https://www.thestreet.org.au/shows/new-owner
Artists RACHAEL WOODWARD and CHLOE FLOCKART will take the group through processes used by TLGH when devising New Owner from how they worked from an idea to the show New Owner and how it has evolved through touring.
Day one – How we make it together
will cover devising theatre, moving past sticking points including turning ideas into images, and considerations for touring work.
Day two – Hacking waste, making puppets
jumps into puppet hacking and the process of toy hacking that was used to create the puppets for New Owner and how to perform with them. Participants will make their own puppets.
From visual dramaturgy to repurposing objects to sustainable artistic practice Rachael and Chloe will give an understanding of the elements to consider when making work of this nature.
EOI close 5pm 17 Jul 2021
You can submit your form here.
Chloe Flockart (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist from Njaki Njaki Noongar Boodja in Regional Western Australia. She has worked as a puppeteer, puppet maker, and puppet mentor from companies around Australia and the UK, from tiny table top puppets to a large scale inflatable turtle for Cirque Du Soleil. When not working in puppetry, she is a passionate advocate for arts access in remote and regional communities. She is a founding member of Meridian Regional Arts Inc, a not for profit focused on ensuring the arts is accessible to regional communities in WA’s Wheatbelt, and a Regional Arts WA fellowship artist for 2021-2023 with a focus on creating a sustainable career in regional areas.
She is very good at making things look alive, and fixing things with gaffer tape.
Rachael is a theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and teaching artist who describes herself as neuro-diverse. Her work is often visually based, working with images to explore a story. She developed her own show Valentine which was presented at AWESOME Arts Festival 2018 and 2020. As well as creating her own work for ASSITEJ Next Generation Asia, Melbourne’s Festival of Puppetry, and ATYP’s Fresh Ink Program she has worked with companies such as The Last Great Hunt, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, and Sensorium Theatre. She has a Bachelors in Performance Making from WAAPA and has trained at Bont’s International Clown School. Rachael is passionate about making work with and for young people, engaging communities through art, and making accessible art. As a teaching artist she has worked with young people in regional schools through AWESOME’s Creative Challenge Program, and taught through DADAA and Barking Gecko Theatre Company. Rachael aims to ignite an audience’s creativity, and imagination by empowering youthful curiosity and playfulness.
The Last Great Hunt is an internationally renowned collective of six theatre makers: Gita Bezard, Adriane Daff, Arielle Gray, Chris Isaacs, Jeffrey Jay Fowler and Tim Watts. Creators, innovators and above else, explorers, with each new theatre experience, they hunt for new ideas and new ways of connecting with expanding audiences across Australia and the world. They create high quality, rigorous, relevant and entertaining original work. Created in Perth, Western Australia, their work features an eclectic variety of forms, styles and experiences. They strive to give their audience an engaging, challenging and moving night out at the theatre.
