On Sunday afternoon we had a performance in the courtyard of the JCCAC, which if I understood correctly was to celebrate this puppet company from Fujian (I’m sorry, I don’t know the company’s name) moving to work in Hong Kong. They did some rod and hand puppet performances which were very impressive.
Our teacher performed a monkey marionette piece which is incredibly cool – the monkey interacts with him a bit and jumps on his legs. A great thing about this is that the strings are used to great effect to allow the monkey to swing around move around quickly in a circle – faster than would be possible with something like a hand puppet. It’s also great to see a traditional form used in a way in which the puppeteer is not hidden, and even has some interaction with the puppet.
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