Saturday, September 22, 2012
Puppets? ‘Little Finn’ is real dance theater
TribLIVE: The little theater downstairs at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh was the site Wednesday evening for the world premiere of a wonderful dance-theater piece featuring puppets called “The Life & Death of Little Finn.”
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This is a really quirky and cute idea for a show. It is a little odd that the show takes place in the basement of a children's museum when the show is clearly not meant for children, but there are weirder places to put on a show. Though it does make you wonder how they chose such a place to put on a show. I think the idea of incorporating puppetry in to dance would be a really cool thing to see. As a dancer, I know a great deal about the fluidity of movement required for dance and I would be interested in seeing how they managed to capture the fluid movements of human dance in to puppets. Also, what kind of puppets are they talking about? From the way the article is written it leads me to believe that they were lion king (the musical version) style puppets, but you never know.
The thing that surprised me most about this article is the fact that 'Little Finn' was mentioned as an adult show, with sexual jokes and after hours, playing in a Children's theater. I'm guessing that one of the reasons this is so could be due to the puppets, and the resources for the show-- I find it absolutely hilarious that a grown up show was playing at the Children's Museum. OR maybe find it cool. I feel like its a growing trend to have adult entertainment in what can be considered 'little kid' form- Avenue Q, the Simpsons, even Fracture Fairytales, just to name a few. It's an interesting combination that I've noticed, I really want to explore this new genre/ style just because I find it so fascinating.
Yes I am so glad that the art of puppetry can be seen outside the realm of hand puppets like The muppets and Avenue Q. This show will allow the demonstration of the main philosophy of puppetry which is to take something that is not alive and make it act alive, not just in the movement of the mouth but also a full range of human movement.
I love the idea of this show. I want to know what type(s) of dance they use on stage to tell the story and how exactly the puppets are manipulated. I keep picturing Avenue Q/ Sesame Street type puppets, but I imagine it would be very hard to manipulate those while dancing. I think Jenni has the right idea; I bet the puppets are more like The Lion King. I also find it very interesting that the plot of the show told with puppets seems like it would be meant for children but the actual content of the show is very adult. Maybe I missed them somehow, but I'd love to see photos of the stage and the show.
This sounds awesome! I love that in recent years there have been more and more puppet shows that target an adult audience. Puppets can be a really powerful medium, but it is usually thought of as very childish. I'm also curious about exactly what form this show would take.
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