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HND
Puppet Theatre Arts
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| About The Course |
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Between 1995 and 2004 SMPC worked as a field centre for Anniesland College in teaching and delivering the only two-year full-time training course in the U.K. - the HND Puppet Theatre Arts. The partnership with Anniesland College came to an end in June 2004 when the Senior Management Team of the College decided not to renew the agreement. This course was unique in the UK and offers the student the possibility to study with the leading team of specialists in the country. The student had access to the finest specialised library and research resource of its kind. The course was taught exclusively at the Scottish Mask & Puppet Theatre Centre and focused on the puppet in all of its forms as the central means of expression. It was validated by the Scottish Qualifications Authority and was written and designed by Malcolm Knight. All modules are in the public domain and if you are an educational body you may locate and adapt them from the SQA catalogue SMPC has a specialised suite of buildings which includes studio theatre, design and carving workshops, library and research unit, Internet facilities exhibition spaces and catering facilities. Also housed in the Centre is a unit which contains one of the world’s finest collections of puppets, prints, engravings and original works, and a bibliotech with 4000 books on the puppet theatre, drama theatre, mime, dance,visual art and crafts,folklore and myths, legends and children’s literature. We are now planning to establish an International Study Centre on site for scholars and researchers to replace the Course.
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| The Course | |
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| The Teaching Staff | |
| Malcolm Yates Knight - Course Leader | |
| Internationally renowned puppeteer and mask maker. He is President of the International Federation of Centres for Puppetry Arts (IFCPA), member of the editorial Board of Contemporary Theatre Review and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre. His PhD was in Mask Praxis: Theories and Practices in Modern Drama at the University of Glasgow. | |
| Grant Mason | |
| Grant specialises in make-up effects, animatronics, prosthetics, and puppets for film and television. He has worked on a wide variety of high-profile productions, including Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Sleepy Hollow, Mission: Impossible 2, Taggart, Fully Booked and Monarch Of The Glen. He is widely regarded as ‘Mr Special Effects’ in the Scottish film industry. | |
| Ian Turbitt | |
| Graduate of the famous Glasgow School of Art in Sculpture, Ian was a Senior Graphic Artist in the Mitchell Library and has now been a professional puppeteer for over 15 years. He has worked in film and television and has forged a reputation as one of Scotland’s best family entertainers. | |
| Anna Ingleby | |
| Anna is a professional puppeteer and education specialist with an impressive list of artistic and academic qualifications. She has trained and researched in Java, India, Indonesia and here in the UK, at the Desmond Jones School of Mime amongst other places. She has worked with many of Britain’s leading puppet companies and currently performs as a solo puppeteer and with her own company, Indigo Moon Puppet Theatre. | |
| Judith Milligan | |
| Trained at the famous Lecoq Mime School in Paris, and previously a graduate of the University of Glasgow, Jude is an expert in mask, mime and physical theatre. She also teaches drama at Glasgow University and is a working actor and performer. She is currently working in France and planning to undertake a PhD at the Sorbonne University in 'The Body as Text, and The Text as Body." | |
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| Sarah Lee | |
| SMPC Centre Manager. A professional textile artist and weaver, Sarah has a degree from Glasgow School of Arts and previous business experience over a ten year period in running her own company, Ecosse. She is also a part-time Course Tutor in textiles with the Nan McKay Centre and has coordinated a number of projects involving tapestry making, quilting and cushion design with a mixed group of senior citizens (ladies). Sarah has designed and written two new courses for the HND in Puppet Theatre Arts - Fabrics and Sewing for the Puppet Theatre, and Textile Design and Manipulation for the Puppet Theatre. She is also the financial book-keeper for the Garret Trust. | |
| John Gilmour | |
| Professional musician and photographer, John is known for his percussion skills and specialist knowledge of Brazilian and Portuguese music. | |
| Don McCoo | |
| Don is the first graduate from the HND Puppet Theatre Arts course to become one of its teachers. He also has a degree in Fine Art & Design from Glasgow School of Art. After a successful career in sales and marketing, he returned to the Arts and is an accomplished 3D animator and puppeteer. Don has a combined arts background, and is a capable puppet performer and aspiring puppet theatre director. | |
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| Visiting Lecturers / Tutors | |
| John W. Harris | |
| A leading authority on mask theatre, specialising in Commedia dell’Arte and Japanese Noh. Formerly senior lecturer in Drama at the University of Hull, John wrote the book Medieval Theatre In Context for Cambridge University Press. He will be lecturing on Commedia dell'Arte on the 8-10th October 2001. | |
| Ken Barnard | |
| Grandson of the legendary Richard Barnard, Travelling Marionette Theatre 1870-1920. Professional puppeteer and renowned puppet-maker, Ken is also Vice-President of The British Puppet & Model Theatre Guild. | |
| Kalamandalum Barbara and Vijayakumar | |
| Specialists in Kathakali theatre from Kerala in Southern India. Barbara is a leading exponent of 'Chutti' make-up, and has her own company called Centre Ocean Stream. Vijaya is a highly trained kathakali dancer with an international reputation for playing female roles. SMPC has undertaken annual residencies with Barbara and Vijaya since 2000 in living sculpture, kinetic design and related kathakali skills. | |
| Ninian Kinnier-Wilson | |
Mask-maker and sculptor with a specialism in making masks in leather for Commedia dell'Arte. Ninian trained with Stefano Perroco from Venice, and ran his own company, Unfortunati, in the 1980's. He has taught mask-making and exhibited at SMPC since 1978. His work features in our two touring exhibitions. Trevor Hill A graduate from the department of Theatre, Film & Television studies at the University of Glasgow and Queen's University, Belfast. Trev deals with many of the performing aspects of the Puppet Theatre and social anthropology. He is currently undertaking a PhD at Edinburgh University, and regularly researches and performs in Eastern Europe, and is living in Poland where he aims to build and open an experimental theatre. Dr. Joko Susilo Dr. Susilo was artist-in-residence from Java, shared with the University of Glasgow, for the academic session 2001-02. He is a puppeteer, puppet-maker, designer, martial artist, musician, composer and ethnomusicologist. He performs and teaches traditional Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet theatre of Java, Indonesia). He has also created works of intercultural theatre in collaboration with Maori storytellers, New Zealand dancers, and American puppeteers. He was with us on a special Leverhulme Research Fellowship in partnership with the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow from October 2001-June 2002. He is now a Fulbright scholar in the USA and professor of theatre at the University of Otago in New Zealand. |
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