Ensemble Puppetry for the Stage

Led by: Fletcher Pierson

Sunday, March 15 @ 12pm - 4pm* + Sunday, March 22 @ 12pm - 4pm*

[*NOTE* - This is a TWO-DAY workshop]

Ensemble Puppetry for the Stage will explore how a group moves as one body apart, how a group puppeteers one body together, and how that group’s movement can turn an empty stage into another world. We will learn about physical thought as an ensemble, puppet devising, and the tool of focus on stage. By the end of the two-day class, participants will have activated their own bodies as individuals and as a group, and breathed life into an inanimate object in synchronicity with other performers. Come dressed to move! [PLEASE NOTE: This is a two-day workshop—registration includes both dates. and participants must attend both dates, in succession.]

Fletcher Pierson is a puppeteer and artist based in Chicago for over 10 years. His recent work includes Rough House's House of the Exquisite Corpse V, performances with Rabbit Foot Puppetry, Squonk's Brouhaha!, Josh Rice’s KAYFABE, and Tom Lee's Sounding the Resonant Path. He is also the founder of Auricle, a free puppet theater company.

Flyer photo credit: Rabbit Foot Puppetry's Labyrinth, photo by Stephanie Tarrant @STEPHANIETARRANTPHOTO