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WWC Students Present Original Puppetry Works
Thursday, December 17 – 7:30 p.m.- Warren Wilson College Puppetry Slam. $10 /$5 for WWC students and staff w/IDPuppetry is an ancient art form, one that allows performers to enact feats that are physically impossible for mere rigid-jointed humans and to express complex ideas and emotions. Puppets can also get away with behavior and opinions that that would be outrageous in everyday society, holding up a funhouse mirror to the human condition. Students from Warren Wilson College will celebrate puppetry in its myriad forms at the White Horse Black Mountain on Thursday, December 17 at 7:30 p.m. with a Puppetry Slam of original works.
The short-form works included in the Puppetry Slam were created in a special class at WWC this semester taught by master puppeteer Lisa Sturz of Asheville’s Red Herring Puppets. Several puppet genres are employed, including shadow puppetry, hand puppets, marionettes and toy theater. Themes run the gamut from goofy to poignant, personal to political, sensitive to satirical and points between. Performers include Emily Defield Bader, Selena Tosh Whitehead, Stephen Fenstermacher, Micaela Strickland, Shannon Waldman and Michael Mamary.
Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 /$5 for WWC students and staff w/ID.
Advance tickets available online at:
http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com
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