Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry Course

Begin a fascinating journey of exploration and learn how to build a fully working Teatro Lambe Lambe Theatre and puppets from your own design, whilst exploring the exciting micro world of Lambe Lambe puppetry performance and puppet making!

Learn the Brazilian art of Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry with the UK's leading specialist in the subject, Fagner Gastaldon of PuppetSoup.

New Course Dates for 2024!

Timings are suitable for students in the USA, Canada, the UK and beyond! Classes are on weekends over a total of eight days.

This course is suitable for total beginners to advanced professional puppeteers as you receive personal tuition throughout the course. All levels are very welcome.

12pm (midday) Eastern Standard Time (USA) 5pm (UK Time)

February 24th, 25th, March 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th.
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Classes are live and interactive (not pre-recorded) and we limit our group to a maximum of 10 people to keep the course friendly, personal, and high quality.

Join award-winning Brazilian puppeteer and maker, Fagner Gastaldon of PuppetSoup, and learn how to create and build a "Teatro Lambe Lambe" in this inspiring online puppetry course.

Develop a unique and portable puppetry performance and construct a magical theatre box, miniature theatre world, and fantastic micro puppets in this innovative puppetry workshop.

Teatro Lambe Lambe is a Brazilian form of puppetry that Director Fagner Gastaldon specializes in performing and has taught extensively. Fagner is a multi-award-winning puppeteer originally from Brazil who holds an Honours Degree specifically in Puppetry from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he also now teaches up to Postgraduate level in puppetry.

This course offers you the unique opportunity to learn the art and craft of Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry with one of the puppeteers who was in Brazil for the start of this puppetry movement and has performed Teatro Lambe Lambe for over twenty years.

The course will run over four weekends (8 days) in 2024, and timings will be set at midday EST (Eastern Standard Time), allowing students from the USA, Canada, the UK, and beyond to learn the art of Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry with convenient timings.

The course will be run online, and each session will consist of 2-3 hours of group tuition in a small group, where you will receive lots of personal tutoring and guidance to make your own Teatro Lambe Lambe.

You will receive expert tutoring in the history, heritage, and techniques of Teatro Lambe Lambe and then go on to learn how to design and build a fully working Teatro Lambe Lambe and make the miniature puppets to be performed within it.

You will work towards creating a show ready to be performed. You will receive tuition in all aspects of making and performing Teatro Lambe Lambe, from how to design and make the theatrical box, staging, set design and construction, puppet design, puppet construction, and of course, tuition in performance and advice on your show.

Objective of the Lambe Lambe Course:

To learn how to create and build a "Teatro Lambe Lambe" from your own design and to go on to construct this theatre and its puppets within the workshop and learn how to perform with it.

Details of this workshop:
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This is a mixed-level course available to experienced puppet makers or complete beginners.

Tuition will be provided online for a group of adult learners via Zoom. The course is suitable for adults over 18 years of age and will require some basic household tools such as a drill, scissors, pliers, and a hot glue gun. Materials are not provided for this course as the course is delivered online, so materials will need to be sourced. You will be provided with a simple tools and materials list when you make your booking.

The online course is fully comprehensive and offers learners from all locations around the world the chance to explore the wonderful art of Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry.

What you will learn and do:

You will learn about the history, heritage, and techniques of Teatro Lambe Lambe and then go on to learn how to design and build a fully working Teatro Lambe Lambe and make the miniature puppets to be performed within it.

You will work to finish a show ready to be performed. You will receive tuition in all aspects of making and performing Teatro Lambe Lambe, from how to design and make the theatrical box, staging, set design and construction, puppet design, puppet construction, and of course, tuition in performance and advice on your show.

The course will run over 8 sessions of 2-3 hours of online tuition (over four weekends). Of course, to make your Lambe Lambe performance ready will require plenty of work and rehearsal outside this time, however, you will gain all the knowledge you need on this course to go on to perform successfully.

Skills you will learn on the course:

• How to design a small-scale theatre
• How to design the scenery of your theatre
• How to design small-scale puppets and props
• Health and safety in a workshop environment
• Safe use of tools
• Guidance on the use of tools
• How to take your design from paper to turn it into your theatre
• Puppet construction and making
• Depending on the style of your project, you could be working with sculpture, carving, and mechanism development.

Materials and tools are not provided as the course is delivered online, but you will be provided with a welcome letter, tools list, and materials list in advance, as well as reading materials throughout the course. The course is delivered live online and will include a range of learning styles to ensure you don't get screen fatigue!
The numbers for this course are strictly limited to ensure all students get satisfactory tuition and plenty of personal guidance to make the best Lambe Lambe they can. This is a friendly, informative course where you will learn from an expert tutor and be welcomed into the Teatro Lambe Lambe Puppetry world.


"Described by artist Álvaro Apocalypse as 'A última grande invenção do teatro de animação no mundo, ' or 'The last great invention of animation theatre in the world, ' Teatro Lambe Lambe is a form of puppetry or shape animation that takes place inside a confined but easily transportable space, usually a box placed on a tripod that, normally, one spectator would watch at a time.

Each play or show is traditionally short, usually two to five minutes in length, and a whole variety of techniques and tricks are used within these miniature theatres to offer spectators the full variety of puppet art, just on a smaller scale!"

We look forward to welcoming you to the Teatro Lambe Lambe puppetry course.

For adult puppetry beginners to professional performers and puppet enthusiasts. 18+ only.
  A simple materials and tools list will be provided on booking. For the first few classes, very basic supplies are needed such as paper, cardboard, tape, string, pens, and pencils. This means even if you book last minute, you will have time over the course to source craft materials.
 

After the first session, the next session is: 12pm (Midday) Eastern Standard Time (USA) 5pm (UK Time) February 24th, 25th, March 2nd, 3rd, 16th