And finally, we began to create our puppets and scenery for this Inuit story - or a portion of it- and rehearse our final presentation.

 

My group reached consensus very quickly on how we wanted to tell this story.  Even when we disagreed, we were able to come around to the same point of view after discussion.  Each group had different interpretations of the story.  The performance was so much fun to watch and to do. 

Ours was the most literal, but we loved the symbolism of the Inuit drum and revolved much of our rendering around that.  We used shadow puppets during the dream sequence and ensemble puppets for the rest.  If we had had more time, we would have made smaller puppets and used drums as a landscape that they traversed.  I'm proud of what we achieved in such a short time.

It became harder and harder to find time to post last month.  We worked all day and often stayed at the prop shop till after 11 to finish building our projects that we began during the day.

We spent a day at a park designing scenery from limited craft materials and natural objects. 

We experimented with the placement of objects and different kinds of light.  We analyzed the text of an Inuit story that we were going to base our final project on and created art installations that represented key moments in the story.

  We practiced ensemble puppetry.