Playing with marionettes

For many people, it is surprising and fascinating to see how marionette playing is determined by one’s own movements and how, conversely, marionette playing makes one aware of one’s own body
and one’s own movements.

The marionette is a reflection of the player, and at the same time, the player finds himself in the marionette.
Where the two are in accord, the result is harmonious playing that picks up the character of the figure.

 “When everything goes right, a mobile is a piece of poetry
that dances with the joy of life.”

 Alexander Calder, who made this statement, concerned himself intensely with kinetic art. Marionette theatre is a kind of kinetic art, with the puppeteer part of the artwork. The pendulum principle operates not only within the puppet itself but also in the animated interaction between it and the puppet player.

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