To suspend what is rational, the knowledge that the puppet is not alive. “The other element is the audience’s disbelief. “The puppet is the key element,” says the Center’s artistic director, Jon Ludwig. Like dancers, they express a myriad of emotions through movement.Īll these elements are necessary to breathe life into an otherwise inanimate object. Like actors, they evoke multidimensional personalities on the stage. Like sculptors, puppeteers whittle, glue, and shape memorable characters out of everyday objects. “In puppetry, there’s a long tradition of the puppeteer doing it all - crafting their own world,” says Kristin Haverty, who works as producer with the Center. The world of puppetry - and it is a whole world - is an insulated one, partially from the perfect storm of artistic talent it takes to become a master puppeteer. I’m speaking of a curious institution, the likes of which no other city in the United States can claim: the Center for Puppetry Arts. Inside its modest doors, children and families are transported to a place where the trials and tribulations of everyday life are suspended, and childhood splendor reigns supreme, suspended by felt, foam, wood, and string. In a former school building in the heart of midtown Atlanta, couched in the shadows of two titans of the city’s art scene, SCAD Atlanta and the Woodruff Arts Center, there is a portal to a world of illusion and magic.
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