With a bit of rehearsal, students are ready to help their puppets act out amazing stories. These puppets are a simplified version of the traditional flat-carved Wayang Klitik rod puppets of Indonesia.
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Rod puppetry is a form of puppetry that originated in Asia long ago. In the 1800s European colonizers and merchants took samples back home, and then European puppeteers picked up on the idea. These figures are built on a central control rod, and manipulated from below. The arms, and sometimes the legs, can be moved with separate rods.
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