Petrushka
Lisa Sturz's Red Herring Puppets shared the stage with Daniel Meyer, conductor and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Stravinsky's "PETRUSHKA" MAY 10, 2008.
"Red Herring's production was well planned and beautifully performed. It was very unique and well
received by our audience - they loved it!"
Steven R. Hageman,
Executive Director,
Asheville Symphony
"Larger-than-life puppets of extraordinary grace make for a stunning
performance"
Winnie Barrett, President, Asheville Puppetry Alliance
Puppets are visual poetry and their movements and postures are metaphors.
The music tells the audience what the puppets are thinking and feeling.
With characters this large the puppeteers need to work as a team much like the sensitivity of chamber musicians listening to each other while playing their individual notes. For difficult moves it takes three people to work one puppet.
Creating a puppet is much like crafting a musical instrument. If it is not designed and tuned properly, the instrument will not perform well.
