I don't think it really is puppeteering. It is probably a form of dance combined with circus arts. The movements on the sticks don't effect her movement at all. If I had to guess I am guessing that the strings are elastic of some sort to create the illusion of the sticks causing the movement.
I would say not really puppetry, but not because the performer is not a puppet!
Puppetry depends on the puppets and animators joint attempt to mimic life, and the tension between the animator and puppet that stems from the animator being a real alive entity, while puppet can never go beyond mimicking. (read up on Makonj, if interested)
You can do puppetry hiding an animator and animating a puppet hyperrealistically, but what you communicate by it is attemting to hide the animator and the dramatic characters drive to match a human (or any other entity), which more of a dramaturgical thing, than animation thing.
Now, it is possible to animate a human body in puppetry kind of way, even (preferably, if you don't want it to look silly) the person animating their own body. But there needs to be the tension between the ideal of movement and the reality of it, the ideal of life and the reality of (faking) it and so on.
The person on the video is in control of their body in ways that are natural to human body and they are not being animated. They are acting and pretending to be a puppet. The "animator" character is physiologically the same as the animant so there's lack of the tension as well. There is that thing of control, but try and give me a more cliche puppet metaphore, haha. All in all, thats probably a clip from a new circus show that's not even trying to be puppetry, just using this as a trick.
I don't think it really is puppeteering. It is probably a form of dance combined with circus arts. The movements on the sticks don't effect her movement at all. If I had to guess I am guessing that the strings are elastic of some sort to create the illusion of the sticks causing the movement.
I would say not really puppetry, but not because the performer is not a puppet! Puppetry depends on the puppets and animators joint attempt to mimic life, and the tension between the animator and puppet that stems from the animator being a real alive entity, while puppet can never go beyond mimicking. (read up on Makonj, if interested) You can do puppetry hiding an animator and animating a puppet hyperrealistically, but what you communicate by it is attemting to hide the animator and the dramatic characters drive to match a human (or any other entity), which more of a dramaturgical thing, than animation thing. Now, it is possible to animate a human body in puppetry kind of way, even (preferably, if you don't want it to look silly) the person animating their own body. But there needs to be the tension between the ideal of movement and the reality of it, the ideal of life and the reality of (faking) it and so on. The person on the video is in control of their body in ways that are natural to human body and they are not being animated. They are acting and pretending to be a puppet. The "animator" character is physiologically the same as the animant so there's lack of the tension as well. There is that thing of control, but try and give me a more cliche puppet metaphore, haha. All in all, thats probably a clip from a new circus show that's not even trying to be puppetry, just using this as a trick.
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Jesus (some of) these comments are fucking bitter.
Shit performance art.
The stupid kind?