While wandering in the Tian-lu LI Puppet Museum, I met six people －two French, Hai-Li XIA, her friend and a guest lecturer of National Taiwan University of Art. They visited the museum to find valuable source for a research project of Chinese puppet that they planned to conduct after going back to France.
During our refreshing visit in the museum, we honorably had the company of Tian-lu LI’s descendent along the way. Luckily enough, there was a puppet show about the Chinese folk legend --- Wu Song’s fights the tiger. People there were all intoxicated by the wonderful show.
Afterward, his descendent introduced some interesting things of Chinese Puppet, for example, suona horn, a woodwind Chinese instrument. Due to his hospitality; we had the opportunity to visit their greenroom after the show.
The refreshing and lively show which was performed by the Giwaran puppet theatre group had combined the traditional performing art with the modern way of performance. Not only did this combination bring the completely new vision to Chinese puppet show, but at the meantime the pubic could learn more about this genre of performing art.
2010年5月6日 星期四
Combination Bring The Completely New Vision To Chinese Puppet Show
2010年4月7日 星期三
Create own memory in Pi Li exhibition.
After you coming Traditional Hand craft Artists’ Studios, will discover many puppet carve exquisitely, wear gorgeously cloth in a shop window. This specialty shop exhibit the puppet is once fashion in Taiwan, called Pi Li puppet show.
Most surprisingly is after entering the shop will see not only Pi Li puppets but digital correlation goods, like cloth, poster, cup etc.
In addition, the second floor has some setting about Pi Li puppet show; the tourist can take a picture with Pi Li Exhibition. It’s the best souvenirs to tourist after coming Pi Li Exhibition.
Amy, Cindy, Leo, TahkiExperience Glove puppetry by oneself.
The National Center for Traditional Arts is not exhibits hand puppet in Exhibition Center, but also sales hand puppet correlations goods in Traditional Hand craft Artists’ Studios.
Ho Lo mill is one of them, it sales mush nostalgic goods. To promote the puppet’ value, it used the characteristic packing.
Before entering the shop, will see a color pavilion in the entrance. The tourist can use the puppet on color pavilion performed their own puppet show in Ho Lo mill.
In Ho Lo mill, the puppet in The Journey to the West, Romance of Three Kingdom, and Chivalrous swordsman from Yuan Districts etc was exhibited; through the game by poking the box will get the weapon for puppet or retrospective toys.
Tahki & Cindy
photographer: Amy
Cindy, Amy, Tahkiphotographer: Leo
2010年1月21日 星期四
Dress / Robe
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1. Eight Trigram's Robe
2. Military Robe
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3. Scholar's Robe
4. Battle Robe
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Jin Guang Glove Puppets 金光布袋戲(未完成)
Jin Guang Glove Puppets are usually two to three times larger than traditonal models, and are not limitedby the regulations of traditonal glove puppet head carving. Free to imageine and create, carvers started to produce some strange and unusual puppet head, and decorated their costurns with sequins and brightly colored strips of cloth. These strips of cloth, in five colors, stand in the background as the puppets enter the stage, and repressent the characters margical and protective powers. Therefore these puppets are referres to as “Jin Guang”(Golden Light) puppets.
Anti-communist and Anit-Soviet Puppets 反共抗俄戲偶(未完成)
The style of this puppet appearing in modern suit and hairstyle reveals political ideology. In an effort to stabilize the state of affairs in Taiwan, the government began to promote anti-communist theatre. Therefore, twently-minute propaganda dramas were usually shown before the main show.
Japanese style puppets 皇民化戲偶(未完成)
Puppets from this period show a strong Janpanese influence and look completely different from tradition models. Chinese and japanese costume styles were comblined, with puppets appering in Japanese hairstyles and Chinese traditonal dress. Scrpts were also presented in japanese and Taiwanese, and drama plots were borrowed from Japanese stories and legends.
Should-carried stage 肩擔戲臺(未完成)
The should-carried stage is widely known because it can be easily disassembled. This is convenient for the traveling performer, who can place the stage’s components into a case and carry it on his shoulders. Since the stage is small in size, it usually only has one performer, who is responsible for all the spoken lines of the performance. Moreover, this kind of performance art is said to be the original puppet theatre. 
Puppetry Art Center of Taipei
Puppetry Art Center of Taipei is a museum dedicated exclusively to the display, performance, teaching, and collection of puppets and puppetry. There are three areas in the Center; glove puppet area, shadow puppet area and string puppet area.
The first signs of Puppetry Art Center of Taipei go back In 1998, Lin Ching-fu(林經甫), chairman of the Taiyuan Arts(臺原藝術) and Culture Foundation, donated his personal collection of puppets, which he had gathered over several decades, to the Taipei City Government, in the hope of establishing a venue where these puppets could be preserved and exhibited in perpetuity. At last, Puppetry Art Center of Taipei was opened On August 7, 2004.
If someone has interest in the glove puppetry, there are very much antiques about glove puppetry in the Puppetry Art Center of Taipei. People can understand the history and development of puppetry, both traditional and contemporary, and make their unique hand puppets in here.
The Center’s core ideal is “For the love of creativity, for the love of puppetry”. It was hoped become a bridge between the tradition and modernity, introduce puppetry-related culture to people.
