- When:
- Friday, February 19, 2021, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Where:
- Zoom - Link will be provided after Google Form completion
- Complete the Google Form here.
- Speaker:
- Dr. John Bell and Blair Thomas , Bell is the Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts, University of Connecticut and Thomas is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
- Description:
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Dr. John Bell will speak on the history and politics of pageantry. He is a puppeteer and theater historian who began working in puppetry with Bread and Puppet Theater in the 1970s and continued as a company member for over a decade. He studied theater history at Columbia University, and has since taught at New York University, Rhode Island School of Design, Emerson College and other institutions. He is a founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater company Great Small Works and the author of many books and articles about puppetry, including “Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History,” and “American Puppet Modernism.” He edited Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects (MIT Press, 2001), and with Dassia Posner and Claudia Orenstein edited The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (Routledge, 2014). He is also an editor of Puppetry International, the publication of the U.S. branch of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette. In 2011 his book American Puppet Modernism received the Prix de la Recherche award from the Institut International de la Marionette in France, and the Jalal Sattari award (Iran). He is an organizer of the Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands in Somerville, Massachusetts; and a member of the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band.
- Contact:
- Rebecca Husk (rhusk@uchicago.edu)
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https://www.instagram.com/john.bell.puppeteer/
https://www.instagram.com/blairmodernity/