Unraku Workshop # 1

Hallooo!

The first Unraku workshop was strictly monitor work. First we did an exercise where we tried to use our hands as a puppet and follow a mentor's hand to a certain point on the screen. This isn't easy---the puppet monitors are reversed.....so it goes against your normal hand-eye coordination which, dare I say, is equivalent to learning a new language. The second exercises we did were using our hands as puppets to do an improv monologue on screen. We then partnered up with hand/mouth rod puppets to do the same thing. My partner and I got the topic "the public library". My puppet loved it, my partners puppet hated them....so the puppets talked about their feelings on screen....and hilarity ensued.