The Magic of Puppetry

Puppet Female: Just what the hell is going on here? Ashley: Puppetry is a fascinating medium which combines supple forms of art from designing and acting. Hi, log on to watch mojo.com. I am Ashley and tell you the pleasures to speak with two puppeteers for bringing back this magical form of expression. Can you give us a little bit of history about puppet making? Christopher: The whole history was “Marian.” It all started in the 14th or 15th century in France and they were told like biblical stories with puppets and so the word “Marian” actually means little Mary. Puppet Female: Pull yourself together. Let us not lose our heads here. We have got a cabaret to put on already delight. Christopher: Like puppets also include shadow puppetry, hand puppets, rag puppets, things that are easier like The Muffets and what-not. Ashley: What is the difference between a puppet and Marianette? Christopher: Well, what separates a Marianette from all other puppets is the fact that they have strings. Ashley: But there is process here like to take a concept character drawing and turn it into a three-dimensional puppet. Christopher: Like it is really important that from the beginning, to measure out exactly like what all the sizes and proportions raised from the body parts are and then from there we just stow and start making each part exactly how it is measured on the paper. And they start off with like square chops, some way to shape them down and we just go part by part like that. Puppet Male: Why me? (Crying) Puppet Female: Oh, boy! Ashley: So, you created your own company called Panadream Theater which creates puppet shows. What does Panadream mean and why choose this company? Linda: It took about a year, it was a journey in South to figure the right name. We initially started with Pana See a Dream theater then we realized that name start to being used but we really like the idea of having the word “dream” present in the title and pan kind of comes in Peter Pan, again that magical element and also Pan meaning kind of panoramic, encompassing so then Panadream Theater kind of came to be. Puppet Female: Wesling Dixie, you do this feeling soft voice had protein at the start of every show. Now, come on, folk. I know you can do it. Now, go on, get up, get up, that is it. Linda: Creating the company which is basically meant to be or it was written in the stars. My partner, Christopher studied theater and then he created his own puppet company a while back and then he studied dancing choreography. So, he has got all those elements and I myself studied English literature, some kind of a writer at heart and a machete jewelers. I have got a lot of carving skills so with all of these skills put together, we kind of really complement one another and then we decided, “Let us start our own puppet company.” Ashley: And why do you choose this medium to express your self? Linda: Well, you know. We are both artist and any medium is really any medium but at the end of the day, be able to write a play, being able to create the characters, be able to have this characters come to life and make them ourselves and then perform with them. It really encompasses a lot of different kinds of visual arts and performing arts and dense gravity. It really encompasses a lot of energy from kinds of mediums so it is really diverse and really interesting and really fun. Puppet Male: I can do this! I can do this! I am a foot man.