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| | | | | | Country: Cambodia
Category: Craft
Sub-Category: Puppetry
Duration: One week
Price: ?250
Start Dates (dd/mm/yy): Contact Aliore for details
Language of Course: English
Courses per year: Various
Suitable for a family: No
Average Group Size: 3
Accommodation Available: Yes
| | Course Provider | | Aliore Worldwide Workshops
14 rue Coste Frège,
34000
Montpellier
FRANCE
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ALIORE, WorldWide Workshops is an association which organises thematic workshops (cultural, culinary, wine, arts and crafts, music and dance) throughout the world. Their objective is to develop and promote the practise of activities in the country or region from which they originate, thus allowing a total cultural immersion. This course will give you the opportunity to become an apprentice Khmer puppet maker! Shadow Theatre in Cambodia is one of the most traditional formats for storytelling. As with other kinds of Shadow Theatre (Indonesia, China, India, Greece, Turkey etc.) the performance involves the projection of light or fire on a white screen, on which performers use puppets to produce shadows. During Angkor times, carpets of the Royal household were made of large pieces of tanned buffalo skins. One day, a housekeeper, seeing that they were getting old, decided to replace them. As he pulled out one of them and haphazardly put it against light, he realized that having been trodden thousands of times here and there pierced by the stone floor, the holes were making some sort of a relief pattern looking like figures and relief. The housekeeper got the idea to use this discovery. He cut figures of the Reamker out of the skins. The shadow theatre was born. The Cambodian art of Shadow Theatre utilizes puppets made of leather, called Sbaek in Khmer language. The leather puppets are pieces of art in themselves. The design of the panel, made out of an entire cow's tanned skin, refers to an ancient tradition, and requires drawing skills, chiseling ability, and the capacity to balance light and shadow within the panel, in order to let the figures emerge from the panel. Each style is fashioned by craftsmen according to traditional methods. Made from specially treated cowhide, the leathers used for shadow puppetry have been treated, naturally dyed, designed and hand carved by Mann Kosal, the puppetry master of the Sovanna Phum Association and three of his employees. You will stay with an artist's family. Mosquito nets and electric fans will be provided. Half board is possible (dinner, bed and breakfast for 3 € a day to be paid to the family). For a supplement you can stay in a comfortable guest house. The price includes: 15 hours of puppet making (or more) from Monday to Friday, puppet making materials, accommodation with a host family (80 € supplement for a comfortable guest house), a traditional show, membership fees. | | | | | | | |
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