Corina Bona helped overcome a major phobia and revitalized his career. She talks about her collaboration to bring inanimate figures to life
Corina Bona recyclingI count to 10. With my right hand buried inside the head of Treelo - a soft green and blue are lemur television for children in the blue house - I pressure with your mouth open and closed as they lip-sync through the numbers. We have about three before the break.
"Look at your puppet so you can see what really does," he ordered, "so that the mouth is actually open when you say the numbers."
Treelohead, I realize, swinging helplessly in all directions. "It is important to understand that the top of your hand is in the eye and focused attention," he continues, "it is really the key to your thumb do the job. Otherwise, cover the head and eyes lose focus. "
before being rescued in a charity shop by Bona and becomes a puppet, Treelo was once a little over a plush toy historic pier. The transformation is magical in itself, the silence, I think, given the ability of expression that gave him. But Treelo earn a living, accompanying his new owner in the workshops of puppets with students with autism. "They recognize and feel more comfortable with it," she said, tenderly. "It is a small and friendly uncle."
His company, Ray puppets, is based on studies of coexistence, an office building, once abandoned now repopulated by the creative community and charitable organizations in the district of Bristol painfully fresh Stokes Croft - it even has its own Banksy mural.
She goes to a place "safe" chair in your workspace with joy run down a narrow partition wall plywood cabin shared with an old friend who works as a costume designer. Stop-motion animators, artists and academics occupy adjacent walls and the air is full of creativity. "We have a building full of people doing wonderful things," she said, clutching the arm of his seat, as it falls.
Bonalived and worked in Bristol for 11 years, the last five years as a manufacturer of puppets, puppet and puppeteer, denying a transatlantic accent acquired from a broken childhood spent after her mother in Argentina and Venezuelan father - a journey towards Gillette - worldwide. "I grew up in Colombia, Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom ... I went back to Argentina when he was 15, I went when I was 18 and I've been here, "she said, looking tired thought of everything.
Looking down from the platform next to us is a good old-looking Lippy proved resilient in a skirt called Granma. "She is old, the puppet first time I did," he said tenderly. At the time of Bonaparte, who then worked as a theater set designer, shared a house with a puppeteer "who have booked a theater without really thinking about what to do next" and the coast of their partners in the planning of each 15 minute segment ". This was the first time I thought, brilliant, I really go, I will make a puppet and a demonstration that will be great"
Your score mini-production, scare Granma, told the story of a cat's attempts to blow up his former master, "as heard on the radio about another cat who had inherited a lot of money and therefore assumed that the owner was very rich. Which, of course, not true at all ... "
perhaps more remarkable that its design was the fact Bona could perform at all, because by then had developed a severe phobia step had already established its first waste dreams of a career actor.
Howpuppets help to overcome his fear? "It was good," he said in astonishment, as if he was still surprised that the solution had not happened before, "because nobody knew who I was. Granma puppet work with you and s 'sits next to him wearing a black hat with a veil. I literally lose all inhibitions and say what I wanted ... Granma is a terrible flirt with young men seem to enjoy it. So I had the time of my life. "
As this was a day of production in a theater bar, Bona down between shows with puppets and talk to people in the bar: "I think that helped me lose the fear, a was a liberating reality now, "he said.
In recent years, Bristol has become a center of puppeteers, fueled by the presence in the city of several major production companies, including things Green Ginger and absurdities and the selected image and Puppet Festival in Bristol, the second edition of what was in the summer. And many thanks Ginger Bona Green launched his career, which in turn participate in a course of two years with the company as part of a training project called Toast in the machine.
Although everything seems perfectly feasible in Stokes Croft, I wonder if, in the world suffers from low occupancy in popular perception.
An example is the film Being John Malkovich, the story of a puppet puppeteer who discovers a portal into the mind of the Hollywood actor. I say it seems strange that history should be so eccentric a reference point for many people. But then it is reasonable to assume the call is mainly due to the power of control over another person?
"massive", Bona agrees. "You can dive into a character in a way that, personally, can not as an artist I can not be a woman of age. You can put makeup on me, but I really do not know how it feels. Although I am a puppet and by observing these features in it, and I can see in front of me and it's easy physically. For me anyway, is something that can relate to easily. "
But I was never able to know if Being John Malkovich is to glorify and mock the puppeteers. "I would say a little of both," she said, smiling ironically. "There's a bit of a stigma of puppetry. It is very obsessive."
by puppets, Bona means that the figures of the chain functions as a "high art", a puppet theater - far, she admits, it works. "[Puppets] are like operas," he admits. "To work is to train the years can not just choose a string puppet and bring it to life."
Then there's the Bunraku, "the style that we all try to do now" in the form of Japanese puppetry involving three physical persons carrying on a figure in harmony. "But none of us can be properly trained, because in Japan, it takes 30 years to become a capable person Bunraku "he explains. "Normally, the puppets are a meter high and made of wood, very heavy. Very often there is a person who is a governing hand and torso, a foot to the other on the other hand and head. The beauty of this is that you hyper-realistic movement. "
Currently, Bona is rehearsing for his next show Little Edie, a production of pickled image based on the movie 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens, near the eccentric aunt and cousin lives of Jackie Onassis , to be held at Jackson's Lane Theatre, Highgate, London, in the Puppet Festival in November suspense early.
Before that, however, is a brief tour of the Lofoten Islands of Norway, conducted as part of a funding agreement with Nordland Visual Theatre. "They are amazing to work with, because once you have applied more or less directly receive funds if they like your application," he explains. "All we ask in return is the tour two weeks ago." Find arts funding in the UK is not easy, but Bona said this is only part of make a production of "Not all the nonsense of whether to ask funds, or attempt to do so in a hope and a prayer ... It is a challenge. And repeat for long periods of time is a big challenge, physically. "
To my surprise, I realize that Treelo lemur was hidden in my hand during our conversation. And I'm curious - once the show is over and the puppet is then packed in the trunk - Have you ever occasionally caught in a conversation with the hand in the house? There is a guilty silence. "My partner can give you more information", mutters Bona. "Not that he enters the room, but sometimes the hand of the speaker." Sorry, I want this, I want you ... "
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