Funicular Project: Workshop Making Foam Puppets with Pascale Blaison
São Luiz Teatro Municipal
4 to 6 April
Directed by: Pascale Blaison (FR)
4 to 6 April 2025 (Friday to Sunday)
São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala de Ensaios
FULLY BOOKED
⇨ Registrations are closed. All the selected for the workshop were contacted and due to the high number of registrations, a waiting list was created.
A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the making of foam puppets with Pascale Blaison, who has developed a distinctive work as a puppet builder, puppeteer and actress with renowned theatre, dance and puppet companies such as Philippe Genty or Plexus Polaire, who have performed at FIMFA with their human-sized puppets, or in training at institutions such as the École Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières.
Pascale Blaison will share her experience of making foam puppets, a material with a wide range of possibilities. The foam has very varied mechanical and resistance qualities. Although this raw material may not be very attractive, it has a plastic potential that interests puppeteers and puppet builders. Easy to work with, it allows you to obtain an expressive result that can be animated, without the need for joints or control rods.
Sculpting directly is an experience similar to archaeology. It's about extracting a form that was incorporated into a material. The sculptor's advantage is that he knows what he's looking for!
For: Puppeteers, actors, scenographers, visual artists, performing arts professionals and students (no previous experience with sculpting required)
> More info here <
Directed by: Pascale Blaison (FR)
4 to 6 April 2025 (Friday to Sunday)
São Luiz Teatro Municipal - Sala de Ensaios
FULLY BOOKED
⇨ Registrations are closed. All the selected for the workshop were contacted and due to the high number of registrations, a waiting list was created.
A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the making of foam puppets with Pascale Blaison, who has developed a distinctive work as a puppet builder, puppeteer and actress with renowned theatre, dance and puppet companies such as Philippe Genty or Plexus Polaire, who have performed at FIMFA with their human-sized puppets, or in training at institutions such as the École Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières.
Pascale Blaison will share her experience of making foam puppets, a material with a wide range of possibilities. The foam has very varied mechanical and resistance qualities. Although this raw material may not be very attractive, it has a plastic potential that interests puppeteers and puppet builders. Easy to work with, it allows you to obtain an expressive result that can be animated, without the need for joints or control rods.
Sculpting directly is an experience similar to archaeology. It's about extracting a form that was incorporated into a material. The sculptor's advantage is that he knows what he's looking for!
For: Puppeteers, actors, scenographers, visual artists, performing arts professionals and students (no previous experience with sculpting required)
> More info here <