Shadow puppetry is one of the oldest performing art forms. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the basics of overhead projector (OHP) shadow puppetry, an engaging format that combines low-tech with “archaic” tech. Using translucent and opaque materials alike, attendees will try their hand at creating new puppets, both static and articulated, and act out stories created on the spot. Participants need only to bring themselves and a creative mind!

About the Instructor: Madeline Shuron (they/she) is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia interested in investigating embodied affect and interrogating the audience-performer relationship through an interdisciplinary approach of dance, theater, film, puppetry, and clowning. Their scholarship blends film, literature, educational pedagogy practices, and performance studies into a delicious mix of joy and play. Madeline’s work (both artistically and scholarly) has been witnessed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Dance Studies Association, the Lawrence Art Center (KS), Random Access Gallery (NY), and Post45:Contemporaries; she has given lecture-demonstrations at University of North Carolina at Asheville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the American College Dance Association’s 50th Anniversary Conference. Madeline is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright scholarship to conduct dance research in Berlin.