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January 13, 2025 | Uncategorized,
Inside The Point: Pulling at the Strings
Pulling at the Strings on January 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM marks the return of The Point series for 2025. This panel will feature some of the city’s leading experts on puppetry, including ArtsEmerson’s own Ronee Penoi as well as Professor Felice Amato, Dr. Jason Butler, and Puppet Showplace Theatre director Veronica Barron as they explore the history and contemporary use of puppets and masks in ritual, performance, and therapies.
ArtsEmerson has presented multiple shows with puppetry, including last season’s Moby Dick and Book of Mountains and Seas. This season ArtsEmerson will present Life & Times of Michael K in January. This show features puppets from Handspring Puppet Company, which also created Little Amal and puppets for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Learn more about the panelists below, and register for free for The Point.
Felice Amato
Amato is an artist, scholar, and educator who works at the intersection of education, visual arts, theater, and performance, with a special focus on applied puppetry, masks, and arts research. Much of her work explores the phenomenological material nature of puppetry and masks as well as their accessibility and therapeutic value, and the interdisciplinary and interactive research opportunities they offer.
Veronica Barron
As Executive Artistic Director of Puppet Showplace Theatre, Barron is responsible for Puppet Showplace’s artistic and organizational vision, and supporting the team of staff, artists, and supporters in delivering meaningful community impact through excellence in puppetry. She also tours internationally as a puppeteer on Kid Koala’s live cinema graphic novel Nufonia Must Fall.
Jason Butler
Butler is a Registered Drama Therapist, Board Certified Trainer, and New York State Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. He is a former President of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) He is the editor-in-chief for The Arts in Psychotherapy and the former training director for DvT Montreal, a satellite of the Institute for Developmental Transformations.
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