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World Puppet Day -March 21st

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Puppetry—a Traditional Performing art form with new approach Introduction: One of the best used known folk theatre forms acting as a communication network in rural India has been the Puppets. For ages this folk theatre has proven to be effective means of communication system. Puppetry has evolved as the basis for the theatre and drama art forms in many regions of India. From time immemorial, Puppetry- indigenous folk art of India has been accepted and appreciated form of entertainment. Puppetry –the mother of performing art from is an amalgamation of other art forms like sculpting, music, dance, mimes, art of writing, and oral recitation. This clearly shows that Puppetry incorporates the atheistic beauty of all the performing arts. One more unique place that puppetry holds in performing arts is that in this art from the performer ‘Puppeteer’ creates and build his/her own characters and instruments. As, varied elements go in creating this art form so is the application of this art from...