Wakka Wakka Workshop
Wakka Wakka, a critically-acclaimed New York City puppet group is performing in Ball Theater on Thursday. Students had the opportunity to participate in a storytelling and object manipulation workshop with two of the members of the group. Here Peter Russo introduces the first exercise.
Fergus J. Walsh, member of the puppet group Wakka Wakka, demonstrates how to 'give life' to an inanimate object.
Fellow group member Peter Russo joins in with a spoon.
Zach Canon '16 explores ways to bring life to his 'puppet' during the storytelling and object manipulation workshop.
Rory Willats '17 turns a roll of bubble wrap into a bird.
Peter Russo gives feedback after the demonstration by Willats.
Fergus J. Walsh offers his feedback as well.
Chris McCloskey '14 chose a hat as his puppet.
Brad Hopper '14 finishes up introducing his life-like pen to the group.
Russo gives Hopper suggestions on improving his technique.
After the students practiced techniques of storytelling Russo and Walsh demonstrated with one of their puppets.
Many of their puppets require two or more people to manipulate the pieces to adequately tell the story.
