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Thailand: Join a great dream in the Musical Show with Thai Marionettes

InspirationSema Thai Marionette is a marionette troupe of moral support and the ways of living economic sufficiency guidelines who we had the activities for the benefit of society, the youth group and family always. We have seen the importance of creating awareness on the value of Thai farmers and rice Thailand because in the…See More

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Preparation of new marionette show.

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Hi Wayne, nice to know you. Oh my god i love your job very much. It's very very fantastic.

Jan 8, 2011

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C.Piewnam commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

Thank you so much Joan.

Jul 26, 2010

Joan Schirle commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

Your puppets are really beautiful. I am sending your link to friends who curate the House of Masks & Puppets in Mas, Bali, Indonesia. Their museum would love to see your puppets, I'm sure!

Jul 26, 2010

Marka Smith commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

These are beautiful and magical. We fly in our dreams which is why puppets must be able to fly too!. What fairy tales do they tell?

Jul 8, 2010

Annie Stanfield-Hagert commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

This is wonderful and clever! Please keep up your good work. One time in Bangkok, around 1998, a German puppeteer came to the Goethe Institute off of Silom Road and did an all day workshop on puppets. We made a mangosteen become a puppet! We tried…

Jul 6, 2010

C.Piewnam commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

Hi, Nice to know you, thank you for your comment. Two year ago, have a string puppet traditional from Sri Lanka which a history longer than 100 years. They’re to visit and talk to us for exchange about concept and the traditional culture to…

Jun 25, 2010

arran towers commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

hi, the images are beautiful and your puppets are stunning. i use traditional north indian string puppets at present, and am starting the long path to creating my own puppet characters, but its hard! great to hear of a group making such advances.…

Jun 24, 2010

C.Piewnam commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

Thank you very much for your comment, Nice to know you.

Jun 24, 2010

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Fito Oddone commented on the blog post 'Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life'

beautifuls! The imagination fly seeing them. Thanks for share

Jun 24, 2010

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At 3:47pm on May 23, 2010, Nico Daswani said…: Dear C. Piewnam, hope you are well. How are things in Thailand? How is the violence affecting you, your work and the arts community? I just started a discussion about this and hope you will shed some light for the rest of us about how serious this is- and how we can all help. You can reply here: http://www.createculture.org/forum/topics/are-you-in-thailand-how-is-the

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At 3:36am on March 30, 2010, Reem Hegab said…: nice to know you sema, my name is Reem, i hope you accept my invitation request.

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My Role: Theatre Artist, Educator, Arts Worker, Artist, Arts Lover, Arts Institution

My Discipline(s): Theater, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, Crafts, Film & Video, Digital Arts, Literary Arts, Culinary Arts, Design

My Specialties: Good Puppeteer

About Me And My Work: I’m puppeteer in the Sema Thai Marionette troupe from Thailand. My string puppet or marionette has a Thai nationality. “SEMA” have the means “Boundary marker of a temple”; A symbol in Buddhism to prevent the wickedness with the aim for Semathai have a way to bring the story content the principle of moral, ethics along the teachings of Buddhism as a way of creating works. From the beginning of born the string puppet or marionette art in Thailand. We has developed and creating Thai string puppet this from educational materials and find out methods create a puppet and control our own. We create string puppets almost 100 puppet and have stories for show more than 30 stories both rewritten and adapted from the folk literature and Thai literature. and the identity of Semathai has the cultural roots of Thailand an inherited continuously, we have received support and promote Thai puppet to represent the participation in cultural exchanges in Asia and Europe continued.

Places I Would Like To Visit: Year 2008, Semathai led the art of string puppet shows the stories “Chao Ngor”, which a puppet show to written new adapted from the literature on Thai stories “Sang Thong” the poetry by King Rama 2, and presented in English, participate in the contest and publish the World Festival of Puppet Art Prague 2008 at Prague, Czech Republic. We have received “The Most Poetic Creation Award” from this show, and nominated awards for “The Best Director and The Best Performance”. This is the first time of us open show Thai string puppet toward the eyes of foreigners.

Year 2009, Semathai marionette has become integrated into the study of national art the hun luang (large court puppets); this is the art of manipulation to control the line of the puppet movements from below, and is creating new puppets to 18 puppets in the form of Ramayana string puppet was inspired by the traditional folk art puppet. We have been selected as one of 29 teams from around the world, nearly 300 of the puppets world, to the string puppet show on "The Battle Prommas" has participate in the World Festival of Puppet Art Prague 2009 at Prague, Czech Republic. We has receive “The Best Traditional Original Performance” and nominated award for “The Best Artistic Creation”

Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With: the vision of a part in creating a platform for artistic exchange, cultural, knowledge, and experience manipulate a puppet with WAP-World Association of Puppeteers and puppeteer around the world.

My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists: Professor Michael Meschke
Puppeteer around the world

My Web link: http://www.semathai.com

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Thailand: Join a great dream in the Musical Show with Thai Marionettes

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Sema Thai Marionette is a marionette troupe of moral support and the ways of living economic sufficiency guidelines who we had the activities for the benefit of society, the youth group and family always. We have seen the importance of creating awareness on the…

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Bringing Thai String Puppets To Life

Posted on June 23, 2010 at 9:30am 8 Comments 0 Favorites

Once upon a time, recently has a one young group to not knowing about it string puppet came together to do what they love, that is the string puppet of Thai. Do you know than a string puppet is a beautiful and have a life on the stage. How the string puppet these have a life up?