The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival presents the The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppet Symposium livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Saturday 21 January and Saturday 28 January 2023.
The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium brings collectively working towards Festival artists with students to contemplate the intersection of puppetry with different disciplines and concepts. Before 1912, the yr the Little Theater of Chicago was based within the historic Fine Arts Building, the time period “puppeteer” didn’t even exist. Little Theater director Ellen Van Volkenburg wanted a program credit score for the actors she had skilled to control marionettes whereas talking the textual content of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and he or she coined the phrase “puppeteer.” That marked the daybreak of the motion that has introduced us to the wealthy artwork type now practiced around the globe. In Van Volkenburg’s honor, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival presents 4 discussions that includes pageant artists and key subjects from the works introduced within the Festival.
Saturday 21 January
Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium: Boundless Bodies
10 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6)
The School of the Art Institute Performance Dept. and Chicago Puppet Fest current: Boundless Bodies. Moderated by Dr. Paulette Richards with panelists Ishmael Falke (Invisible Lands), Elise Vigneron (Anywhere), and Camille Trouvé (R.A.G.E.).
Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium: Grand Narratives and Petits Récits
1 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6)
The School of the Art Institute Performance Dept. and Chicago Puppet Fest current: Grand Narratives and Petits Récits. Moderated by Dr. Paulette Richards with panelists Yngvild Aspeli (Moby Dick), Sarah Fornace (Frankenstein), Michael Brown (Invitation to a Beheading) and Theodora Skipitares (Grand Panorama).
Sunday 28 January
Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium: Maya: the Uses of Illusion
10 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6)
The School of the Art Institute Performance Dept. and Chicago Puppet Fest current: Maya: The Uses of Illusion. Moderated by Dr. Paulette Richards with panelists Eduardo Felix (Macunaima Gourmet), Janni Younge (Hamlet), Jonathan Meyer (as if your physique had been proper) and Michaela Homolová (Choo. Choo. Whistle. Woof!).
Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium: Building New Worlds: Emerging Voices
1 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6)
The School of the Art Institute Performance Dept. and Chicago Puppet Fest current: Emerging Voices. Moderated by Dr. Dassia N. Posner with panelists: Graduate college students from University of Chicago, University of Connecticut, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Northwestern University.
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