Centre for puppetry arts8/18/2023 ![]() She has designed puppet exhibitions for Serendipity Arts Festival, The National Museum in Delhi, the Children’s Musuem at Prince of Wales Museum(CSMVS) Mumbai and the Goethe Institutes Infinite Library Project. She works as a consultant in arts for public health, peace-building and education projects for communities, schools, juvenile homes, in conflict zones like Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Manipur. She has been a researcher in residence at the Deutsches forum fur figurentheater, in Germany. She has been a Pro Helvetia, artist-in-residence at Rote Fabrik, Zurich and at World Arts and Cultures, UCLA. She is a recipient of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in Puppetry, a National Award in Puppet Theater in 2006 and a CLORE Chevening Fellowship in 2021-22. She has a diploma in puppet theater from Dramatiska Institutet,DI, University of Stockholm, Sweden and has trained at the Scoula De La Guaratelle under Bruno Leone. ![]() She is the Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust since 1998. Katkatha is committed to training the next generation of puppeteers and creating a new space to seedbed new puppet groups and companies by holding annual master-classes, mentorship projects, internships and residencies.Īnurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppet designer and a director of puppet theatre. ![]() The repertoire includes over twenty five original performances. This includes the creation of original productions using puppets, masks and objects and touring to international and Indian performing arts and theatre festivals. At the core of the group are sculptors, dancers, writers, designers and puppeteers whose vision is to support a professionally set up and managed space for the promotion, preservation and development of Puppet Theater and allied arts. Katkatha started as an association of like-minded puppeteers in 1998 and was registered as a trust. Fabric and styrofoam figures, papier mache sculptures, Shakespearean comedies and Indian epics, the stories from conflict zones and the worlds of little children are all a part of Katkatha’s work where puppets are not dolls with strings but the theater of inanimate material. The centre is available to everyone who needs to consult information on this area.Katkatha is an amalgam of two Hindi words, Kat meaning wood and is derived from the word Katputli (puppetry) and Katha meaning story, together becoming puppets and stories. The documentation centre, specialised in the field of puppet theatre, possesses monographs, reference works, journals, iconographic material, audiovisual and multimedia material, such as films, documentaries, music, among others. This collection is composed by the company’s puppets, “historic” puppets, toy theatres (originals from the 19th century and early 20th century) books about theatre, specially puppet theatre, photos, brochures and others. ![]() The CAMa - Puppetry Arts Centre is home to the company and a centre for project development, where the Funicular Project, a programme of training composed by international workshops gathering several different artistic disciplines, allowing the encounter of puppetry with other arts, is also integrated.ĭuring these 26 years of activity, A Tarumba has gathered in CAMa, an important artistic collection.
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