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Session : Puppet Theater and its Relationship with India
Reading:
“Introduction” to Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performances ( Richmond, Swann, Zarrilli, eds.), University of Hawaii Press, 1990 (pp1-13)
James Brandon, “The Period of Indian Cultural Influence,” in Theatre in Southeast Asia, Harvard University Press, 1967 (pp12-27)
Michael Schuster is an arts administrator, performer, designer, teacher, presenter, and ethnographer, focusing on the arts of Asia and the Pacific. He holds a Ph.D. in Asian Theatre from the University of Hawai`i and was appointed Curator of the East-West Center Gallery in January 2004. He began studying the arts of Asia and the Pacific in 1973, and has trained with master artists from India, Burma/Myanmar, Indonesia, and Japan. He has researched and recorded artists from China, Korea, Tibet, Japan, India, Okinawa, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Samoa, and Hawai`i. A specialist in the puppetry of South and Southeast Asia, he has also studied iconography, carving techniques, costuming, and history, religion and philosophy as they relate to the arts of Asia and the Pacific region.
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