What's The Story? Storytelling with Puppets, Masks & Scrolls With Kathy Foley
Puppets, masks, and story scrolls are interrelated traditions used to present traditional Asian epic stories like the Mahabharata, Jataka tales, Hamzah, and Yoshitune. Text-based forms like bunraku contrasted with orally generated forms like the Indonesia wayang. Puppets conform to a story at first, then the story bends to performance structure. Iconography, performance, music, and dance prevail. Kathy will take us through the various forms of performance stories and Asian epics. This is a good introduction to our forthcoming Arts of Asia series on Asia’s Storied Traditions.
Kathy Foley is a Professor of Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz and Editor of the Asian Theatre Journal. She curates exhibitions on Asian masks and puppetry and performs wayang golek - a rod puppet form of West Java.
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