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Collette Knowles
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Wonderful puppets, cold puppeteers.
Hi, I am a puppeteer based in the U.K. The article is very interesting and this is the first time I have come across Vietnamese water puppets. It is very exciting to come across new artforms but I guess there must be 100s of types of puppets that I have not heard about and there are so many variations. I imagine it is not one of the most comfortable puppet art forms in the world though(for the puppeteer that is). I liked what you said about the engineer who thought they were powered by computer. We did a shadow puppet show inside a booth one time and in one scene we had two people operating 4 puppets, then in another scene we had still duplicates of the puppets on the screen while we were both outside the booth, some people in the audience were fooled into thinking we had more puppeteers inside the booth. It is amazing how low-tech. solutions can still be magical for people. I will put a link to your blog on mine and if you like, you can put some comments about water puppets on my blog, as I'm sure lots of people would be fascinated to find out about them.