Marionettes

As an introduction to puppetry itself, we challenged ourselves by miming as marionettes, pretending that there were strings attached to our joints. This was actually quite a challenge since we are not used to moving one limb at a time (which is what marionettes generally move). I also thought that the exercise in which we pretend that "our puppeteers" dropped us, was quite challenging as well. Since the marionettes are not as flexible as us, we had to fall segment by segment.
After getting used to this activity, we were challenged with another task. To pretend that the puppeteer had dropped us, and then picked us up. With this, we were able to get a feel of "the center of focus".

Then, we divided into a group of 2 and a group of 3, and we had one as the marionette and the other as the puppeteer. The puppeteer was to have the marionette do some kind of task, such as making an omelette, or fixing a car. Then, we added in dialogue. So the puppeteer would move the marionette, step back, and the marionette would say a line. this line could influence the next move, but it is also influenced by the previous move.
Then, the two groups got together, and we had two marionettes and three puppeteers. We were to create a scene with a given location. This was similar to space jump, however it was a slower process, and there are many inputs into this activity. I thought that this was a good activity because it was not only fun and interesting, but it was also an activity in which we could think of the positions and how they can be either static or dynamic.