Everything Comes to Life -
Performing Scenography and the Puppeteer
5 sessions, Aug 3rd- 9th, 2026 $200
An ONLINE class with movement and performing objects!
Taught by Kate Brehm
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Everything can come to life through the hands of a puppeteer, including costumes, props, scenery, and space itself! This online course explores the various roles a puppeteer plays (invisible, visible, character, force of nature, etc.) in relationship to the performing world they inhabit. Classes feature simple physical warm-ups; movement provocations; short improvisations with materials, furniture and performing objects; and show and tell performances. Scenes devised between puppeteer and their environment aim to wiggle your audience’s emotions or rankle their deep attachments to affects like joy, pain, hope, or wild abandon. Emphasizing a collaborative and supportive classroom, this course asks everyone to give it a try and play together. Discoveries await!
Mon Aug 3rd, 2026, 7-9pm
Tue Aug 4th, 2026, 7-9pm
Thurs Aug 6th, 2026, 7-9pm
Sat Aug 8th, 2026, 4-6pm
Sun Aug 9th, 2026, 4-6pm
eastern time on zoom
Our movement work will contract or expand to fit your available space. Required materials include such items as paper bags, cardboard boxes, and household objects. Simple construction requests involving things like masking tape and chopsticks should be expected.
Kate Brehm is an NYC-based puppeteer and movement director. She is the recipient of three Henson Foundation awards, certified in the Margolis Method, and teaches puppetry and mask at Harvard University. She recently published “Puppetry as Phenomena” in Meaning Making in Puppetry - Materials, Practice, Perception. www.katebrehm.com
Contact imnotlost.ny@gmail.com with questions and to sign up.
See http://www.katebrehm.com/teach