{"id":3122,"date":"2011-08-01T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2011-08-01T17:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T22:21:27","slug":"far-from-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Far From The Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wasn&#8217;t able to see it when it was performed a few weeks ago, but Retta sent me a video of her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stannswarehouse.org\/puppet_lab.php\">Puppet\u00a0 Lab<\/a> performance at St. Ann&#8217;s Warehouse in New York. Check it out in the <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/26598038\">video <\/a>below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Far From the Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26598038?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"435\" height=\"256\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Retta says of the Puppet Lab workshops, &#8220;It was incredible to spend nine months working on the development of an idea, with no pressure and all sorts of feedback and encouragement and amazing mentors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously she&#8217;s studied with Dan Hurlin, one of the artists who sat on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/?p=619\">excellent panel I saw last January<\/a>\u00a0where he warned\u00a0against people building puppets and &#8220;wiggling them around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I mentioned that to Retta she said, &#8220;That&#8217;s funny. The other puppet builders we talk to all say &#8220;everyone does it their own way\u2014just build a mock up and start playing, learn what it can do, and then adjust it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to see it when it was performed a few weeks ago, but Retta sent me a video of her Puppet\u00a0 Lab performance at St. Ann&#8217;s Warehouse in New York. Check it out in the video below. Retta says of the Puppet Lab workshops, &#8220;It was incredible to spend nine months working on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,94,15],"tags":[14,58,62,54,423],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-theatre-artists","category-video","tag-craft","tag-nyc","tag-puppets","tag-theatre","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}