Livija Kroflin lives in Zagreb, Croatia. She is an associate professor with the theatre arts department of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek’s Academy of Arts and Culture, where she heads up the puppetry programme and teaches courses in the history and aesthetics of puppetry for which she devised the teaching plans. She also […]
Read morePierre-Alain Rolle, born 1954, is a comedian, puppet creator, stage director and director of his puppet theatre company ”Guignol à Roulettes” founded in 1981 with some twenty shows produced to date. His shows have toured in Europe and internationally. He has also trained puppeteers as well as school teachers in the use of puppetry in […]
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Dadi Pudumjee, born 1951, trained under legendary puppetry artist Meher Contractor, was a guest student at Marionette Theatre Institute] in Stockholm under Michael Meschke, where he also participated in workshops run by Minosuke Yoshida of the National Bunraku Theatre in Osaka, Japan. Dadi Pudumjee is founder of the cross-cultural company, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust […]
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Dimitri Jageneau is the General Secretary of UNIMA. He is the Councillor of UNIMA Belgium.
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Karen Smith, born 1954 in Australia, trained and worked as a puppeteer, designer and builder at the Shri Ram Centre Puppet Repertory, Jan Madhyam, and Ishara Puppet Theatre in New Delhi (India), and studied Javanese wayang kulit at Sanggar Redi Waluyo in Jakarta (Indonesia). From 1986, she was a member of UNIMA India, and later […]
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