Balinese Artist I Made Moja will transport students to an immersive, collaborative storytelling environment. Through the art of shadow puppetry, students will learn how to create their own characters and collectively organize a story through story-boarding and teamwork. Students will develop techniques in acting, sketching, and performance, as well as setting the mood with percussion instruments.
The camp will culminate in an end-of-the-week performance with the student’s collective story.
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Mon, 7/09
INTRO TO PUPPETRY
Character building : use cards to create characters, sketching, students introduce characters to each other.
Puppet Making
Environment Set-up : Create a place in cabbies for puppets to ‘sleep’ when not in use.
RECESS/LUNCH
Acting and puppet movement
After care (2PM onward) structured activities combined with unstructured outdoor play.
Tue, 7/10
LIGHT IN PUPPETRY
Character building : use cards to create characters, sketching, students introduce characters to each other.
Puppet Making
Research : Find other styles of puppetry, and introduce Balinese style
RECESS/LUNCH
Acting and puppet movement : With Light
After care (2PM onward) structured activities combined with unstructured outdoor play.
Wed, 7/11
PERCUSSION IN PUPPETRY
Character building : use cards to create characters, sketching, students introduce characters to each other.
Story boarding : Draw a collective story about the individual characters.
Story development : Practice acting; continue puppet development based on the story; Continue refining puppets.
RECESS/LUNCH
Acting and puppet movement : With Percussion
After care (2PM onward) structured activities combined with unstructured outdoor play.
Thu, 7/12
SCENE PROJECTION
Character building : use cards to create characters, sketching, students introduce characters to each other.
Story boarding : Draw a collective story about the individual characters, using music and sound with characters.
Scene Projection : Find ‘scenes’ to project onto the canvas as the background.
RECESS/LUNCH
Acting and puppet movement : Percussion and projector
After care (2PM onward) structured activities combined with unstructured outdoor play.
Fri, 7/13
STORY REVIEW AND PERFORMANCE
Character Review : Practice acting and and collectively-made story.
Sound Review : Review percussion and music elements with story.
Scene Review : Play with the projected scenes.
FINAL SHOW and RECEPTION
1 PM : Kids and parents go home*
*no after-care
I Made Moja studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Denpasar, Bali, where he was trained in Western traditions and modern art forms such as graphic arts in addition to traditional Balinese painting styles.
I Made Moja
I Madé Moja comes from Batuan on the island of Bali, the leading center for fine arts and traditional watercolor painting in Indonesia. The son of a renowned artist, I Madé Budi, he has been painting for most of his life.
Since the mid-1980s Moja‘s work has been featured in various major exhibitions, including at Jakarta, Ancol, one of Southeast Asia’s best known art centers. His work was also featured at the Southeast Asian Youth Artists’ Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the Billa Bernau Gallery in Bern, Switzerland, at the arts gallery at the University of Iowa, and at IndoArts at Fort Mason Center, Iowa.
Moja has designed illustrations for numerous books detailing the art and culture of Bali. He has also worked extensively as a scenic painter and designer in theater productions, both in Bali and the US, including for ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. As Art Director in such companies, Moja has created elaborate set designs and puppets for the past 20 years.