

As a builder Shur has designed and fabricated puppets for American Idol, Dollywood, Avenue Q, and the U.S.S.

You and your child will have fun creating and playing with your homemade puppet. Prior to becoming the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace, Shur toured the country as a performer with Big Nazo (Rhode Island), Wood & Strings Theatre (Tennessee) and The PuppeTree (Vermont). We will explore essentials like breath, impulse, focus, animation, and look at solo and multiple manipulation of puppets, to give you a solid foundation for. A bit of time and a few basic materials found in your home are all you need. His other original works include "The Carrot Salesman," "Robin Hood," "The Yankee Peddler: Stories and Songs from Old New England" and "The Magic Soup and Other Stories," featured at the Puppeteers of America National Festival 2013. Doohickey" was Shur's first full-length puppet show.

work and will be equipped with the basics of humanistic knowledge. As protégé of master puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis, Shur trained extensively in glove puppetry and currently performs two of Davis’ classic shows at venues across New England. Graduates of this programme will contribute to the global puppet theatre movement. As the Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace Theater he performs regularly and teaches puppetry classes to students of all ages, Pre-K to adult. Puppets and objects to work with will be provided although you are welcome to bring your own figures that you are working with, or intending to work with.About the Instructor: Brad Shur is a versatile puppeteer who has created and performed characters made of everything from pixels to paper mache. Suitable for anyone interested in working with puppets – actors who want to add skills playworkers, teachers, therapists and anyone interested in using puppets in other contexts beginners who are intrigued by the possibilities of puppetry or more experienced performers looking for a refresher on the key skills. In this introductory class, we will create characters using simple puppet making and learn to design characters and stories around these new. No experience necessary – the course will introduce the ways of bringing puppets and objects to life, to start to develop meaningful manipulation that is expressive and emotionally truthful.
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A weekend course introducing the core skills of puppetry.
