Then there's the everlasting image of *NSYNC as marionettes – incredible.
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A family art project, "Wintry Birdy Marionettes," from 10 a.m.
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Of course, the Bob Baker Marionettes will be performing a Halloween-themed set.
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Marionettes have also branched into the avant-garde, morphing into unconventional sizes, forms and materials.
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Lloyd Webber was working his marionettes, with anything that he could find to move them.
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"Thunderbirds" was a British science-fiction television show that aired in the 1960s and used marionettes.
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Was Addman the real puppet master in all of this, playing the Berklee kids like marionettes?
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"People identified with Guignol," said Lucile Bodson, the former director of the International Institute of Marionettes.
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Sfeir-Semler sold one of the marionettes, priced at $65,000, to a collector based in Monaco.
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But Ricky didn&apost start out making marionettes or performing as a puppeteer in the park.
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But it is increasingly celebrated with parades rife with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and thousands of participants.
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When the family revived the shows several decades ago, Mike Manteo made marionettes in his Brooklyn shop.
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Narrator: He makes each of the marionettes by hand and creates a personality for each of them.
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"There were a couple of marionettes dotted around his office," Mr. Tiffany said of their first meeting.
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Ricky Syers is a street performer who works with marionettes that can move like their real-life companions.
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Encased in drab suits — some of them amusingly animate, turning their wearers into marionettes — they struggle to escape.
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He doesn't have extremely big feet — most marionettes don't — and he's too friendly to be an abominable snowman.
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Included within these were traditional temple construction, instruments, marionettes, and classical dance, often grounded in Buddhist myths and stories.
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And last summer, artist Marnie Weber performed at the theater with her improv drone band F as marionettes danced along.
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The first marionettes he purchased were a pair of soldiers from the Bullocks Wilshire, a department store near his home.
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Note the plush strings powerful incantations of "Marionettes" ("Surrender to the kiss of the abyss," is her glowering final line).
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The Abominable Snowman isn't so abominable — in fact, he's pretty sweet — in this salute to winter from the company's marionettes.
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Her marionettes do not have spirits or powers because they are "modern", made of clay and papier-mâché rather than wood.
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But they still meet every evening in the INA's courtyard, where they mould marionettes for a show they may never stage.
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We all know who Paul is, from the peacock strut to how he marionettes defenders and tap dances inside their subconscious.
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Some uncanny marionettes dance and strum a guitar, while others that seem hastily globbed together from clay shiver on their strings.
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Giant puppets will play Gepetto and the story's other adults, while actors, tied to the flies, will portray its miniature marionettes.
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Works by Liz Craft include funky, life-size female figures called "Spider Women," constructed like marionettes out of jointed lengths of wood.
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The first issue here is the difficulty in actually seeing the little guys, whose designs are apparently inspired by traditional Czech marionettes.
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Pinocchio's peers, both human children and the marionettes he meets on his travels, are embodied by merely life-size singers and dancers.
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Mr. Roth keeps his collection on the second floor of his house among Howdy Doody marionettes and other film and television memorabilia.
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Based on the Brothers Grimm version and performed by marionettes, this adaptation stars a witch named Rosina Sweettooth, who's more silly then menacing.
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The Pennsylvania dancers, however, dance it with a jerky, staccato quality I don't remember; they look — or are made to look — like marionettes.
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He fabricated marionettes and cast them in a short 16-millimeter film that told the story of an extraterrestrial who traveled to Earth.
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Either our survival is at risk or we become semi-machines who are like the marionettes of our own moment-to-moment experience.
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In the fifth episode of season 2, "Marionettes," Whelan plays Patricia Campbell, the assistant to the journalist who critiqued the queen's tone-deaf speech.
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This is puppetry's answer to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular: a wide-ranging variety show in which singing and dancing marionettes celebrate the season.
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This esteemed Austrian company carves and paints all its marionettes by hand, dressing them in elaborate costumes and staging its stories on detailed sets.
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Image 2 of 2 CAIRO – In a tiny Cairo workshop, Mohamed Fawzi Bakkar designs and builds marionettes from scratch, hoping to revive a traditional art.
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That will certainly be true this weekend in Queens, where the Maritime Marionettes will present the tale of the tallest of all, the magic beanstalk.
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Already into the bondage scene, he got into dollification when friends and partners asked him to turn them into marionettes, making Danarama a kinky, dominant Geppetto.
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EACH MORNING, Maoua Koné (pictured) wakes beneath the black-eyed gaze of masks and marionettes on the walls of her cramped one-room flat in Bamako.
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If Facebook was really acting in good faith, they'd put it into a foundation and not use it to make the marionettes dance, which they do.
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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater has entertained Los Angeles audiences for half a century, bringing to life intricately designed wooden marionettes with the tug of a string.
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On a starry set with Montmartre and the Eiffel Tower painted into the background, he dispensed justice to other wooden marionettes as the children cheered him on.
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Students of all ages from around the world were spending a month in Prague, first carving and costuming their own marionettes, and then putting on a show.
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I walked in and they didn't know I was there, but I got really freaked out by the marionettes—just the look of them, their mouths, those grins.
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"Back then, every Italian neighborhood had marionettes and a theater," said Susie Bruno, 78, whose family, the Manteos, were the longest lasting of New York City's puppet troupes.
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His images, brought to life with a jerky motion suggestive of marionettes, have an almost childlike sense of geometry (the grandfather's abundant beard often points horizontally or vertically).
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In the video collages of Devin Morris, marionettes prance around in a constructed house party to Jersey House and Baltimore Club remixes of the 90s most memorable hits.
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Women have traditionally been forbidden from operating marionettes, or even making them, a craft that entails complex rituals, conducted under cover of night and involving kola nuts and roosters.
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Friday's event will feature performances from musical dynamo and beatboxer Reggie Watts, composer and musician Jherek Bischoff, the always entrancing Bob Baker Marionettes, and a set from Dublab DJs.
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Episode 5: Marionettes Not unlike the premiere, this episode stars in media res, this time as newspapers print news of the Queen facing criticism from one of her peers.
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His story, told with marionettes, shadow puppets and other forms of puppetry, includes challenges like climbing a tap-dancing spider's thread and plunging to the bottom of the sea.
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Mr. Desarthis was smitten by marionettes as a boy, inspired by his father, Robert, a former toy seller and clown who built Paris's first stand-alone puppet theater in 1933.
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If we're just marionettes on a string and we don't have the kind of agency that we think we have, then what sense does it make to reward or punish behavior?
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In the "Lost in La Mancha" documentary, for instance, we see the director planning a set piece in which Quixote has a sword fight with a troop of man-sized marionettes.
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The most popular was Guignol, created in 1808 by Laurent Mourguet, an illiterate silk weaver-turned tooth-puller in Lyon who used marionettes to attract clients in the city's central square.
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But they lost control, became marionettes of something much bigger and more powerful than any individual, and, by the time that system had started to devour people, it was too late.
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"The Marionettes are back on Mulberry Street," yelled Tony De Nonno, 70, an aficionado of a specific style of Sicilian puppet theater of which the hand-carved knight was an example.
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Toone's marionettes, with a rod attached to the head, are like those used in Sicily where this form of puppet theater is thought to have originated, but given a Belgian twist.
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What surprises me about Alex Vratsanos's grid is the amount of material that can be considered "older," like the comic strip character Blondie's maiden name (BOOPADOOP), Howdy Doody and other MARIONETTES.
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There are dinosaur marionettes that melt into the La Brea Tar Pits and earthquake set pieces that shake up the stage, brought to life with tiny strings and hand-carved wooden parts.
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At the National Marionette Theatre in Prague, visitors can buy puppets at the gift shop, attend performances and make-your-own workshops, view old marionettes and tour the Art Deco theater from 1928.
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Elsewhere, young performers from Ms. Beltrami's dance troupe resemble marionettes: dressed in a wild Elizabethan assemblage and shiny cone hat, or suspended from the ceiling in a red Neoprene suit, like a futuristic skier.
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Though no creative feat is achieved without inspiration, the manner in which Fortnite has transplanted the creative output of these men into its brightly colored marionettes, without permission, credit, or compensation feels particularly egregious.
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Megan James' verbose, poetic lyrics (the song opens with imagery of black widows, spinal cords, and marionettes) are once again knotted through Corin Roddick's half-dream-pop, half-hip-hop production like fine embroidery.
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But mostly the intent is inscrutable, as when the tiny marionettes are replaced with larger, vaguely menacing hand dummies that form a Greek chorus: "Characters in the Pantheon of American Ventriloquism," it turns out.
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In one of their slyest strokes, the Coens have cast Tilda Swinton as identical twin gossip columnists who hate each other and are always vying for the same dirt; Eddie manipulates them both like marionettes.
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There is a faded portrait of a mustachioed man from an indeterminate era, and antique marionettes of soldiers hanging on a cloudy, wall-size mirror; the rest-room signs are done in careful Art Deco lettering.
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It is like watching well-made marionettes handled by a not entirely expert puppeteer: You see the strings, and the movement, yes, is jerky, but the action still has charm in its complete lack of pretension.
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Much like the neighborhood, those traditions have been fading for years, but here was this errant knight being conveyed by a couple of locals doing their part to revive a tradition: the Marionettes of Mulberry Street.
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Not one to shy away from the pangs of tragicomedy, Steyerl has included sculpture renderings of the blocky blue birds, which are strewn across the opulent wooden floors of an Armory gallery like abandoned dinosaur marionettes.
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Dancers in Schlemmer's rigid, voluminous, geometric costumes became living sculptures moving mathematically, like marionettes, over fields of color — a plastic metaphysical vision that would haunt the performance art of Robert Wilson, David Bowie, Lady Gaga and others.
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In some Morris choreography — the two concertos here are good examples — we're left with a strange self-contradiction: Now the dancers look singularly spontaneous and free, now (often only moments later) they feel like Mr. Morris's marionettes.
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She plays in the aforementioned Marionettes, and enrolls a budding high school filmmaker named Wilkin Rush George III (Samuel Im) to help her make a video about Frenchwomen being shipped off to Canada in the 17th century.
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Highlights include "Adventure in Telezonia," a 216 short in which marionettes explain how to use a telephone, and "Shake Hands With Danger," a hilarious and terrifying 221 safety reel made for employees of Caterpillar, the tractor manufacturer.
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Worse, if porn performers' poseable nude bodies could be successfully combined with face-swap technology, performers will have to contend with the possibility that their bodies will become headless marionettes acting out any scenario whatsoever, involving anyone.
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Vit Horejs, the founder of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater, has been presenting variations of this piece of multicultural merriment since 2001, always using some three dozen wooden marionettes and rod puppets, many of them vintage examples.
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Highlights include "Adventure in Telezonia," a 1949 short in which marionettes explain how to use a telephone, and "Shake Hands With Danger," a hilarious and terrifying 1975 safety reel made for employees of Caterpillar, the tractor manufacturer.
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Thus they parade around Miriam Buther's rather overdone set like angsty marionettes, which the director uses to distract us from a story that Albee wrote from the heart, complete with fractious questioning, technical finesse, and plain old talent.
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The puppeteers will use both marionettes, handmade in their studio in Nova Scotia, and shadow puppetry to tell the story of Jack, who trades his cow for a few beans and gets much more than he bargained for.
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Still, directing singers is a very particular art: Try to make them move too precisely to the music, and some of them look like unmotivated marionettes, the more so if they have to share the stage with dancers.
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Revived after more than 10 years, this anthology, by Jeff Borkin and Daryl Kojak, features new marionettes and an updated script but still begins and ends its stories right where its young audience is watching: in Central Park.
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That points to another political reality: modern Russia is not a one-man show with Mr Putin singing, dancing and acting at its centre; nor is it his personal puppet theatre, where the marionettes move only at his will.
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The Hamburg dealer Galerie Sfeir-Semler was offering one of about 140 Murano glass marionettes that the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky used in 2015 in the third installment of his "Cabaret Crusades" video series, narrated from an Arab perspective.
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Narrator: Rusty is based on his late cat, but he said it was more fun to create a dog because there were more movements and personalities he could create through the marionettes, like tail wagging, running, sitting, and playing.
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As Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, this is far from the first time Daniels has voiced his concerns about ominous organizations like the Illuminati, that fabled secret society that allegedly controls the world of mortals as if we were marionettes.
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Like much of her work, these paintings reveal an interest in artifice: The two stiffly posed figures on stage in Ceremony could be marionettes, especially read beside the jointed limbs of the dolls in Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie.
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"King's Crossing" appeared on his posthumous From a Basement on the Hill as a terrifying centerpiece, a howl of voices that gives way to a funereal waltz before a cast of marionettes and skinny Santas show up to hurl viciousness at the protagonist.
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It's left to the viewer's imagination how this idea applies to Win McCarthy's zany, messy, architectural constructions; Liz Craft's funky, life-size marionettes; Elizabeth Jaeger's haunting ceramic silhouettes of large vessels; Rochelle Goldberg's weird indoor garden; and Maggie Lee's affecting, autobiographical video installations.
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For me, it began with passers-by on the street calling me Michelle Obama, Rihanna or Beyoncé — as though I can resemble all three — and the Italian men selling Pinocchio marionettes in the piazza near the famed cathedral, il Duomo, shouting "cioccolatta" (chocolate).
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Granted, he may be more stiff than fans usually picture him — he and his fellow characters are all handmade wooden marionettes — but thanks to the talents of the theater's puppeteers and its artistic director, Bruce Cannon, he can still nimbly leap and fly.
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By the time he got to Hollywood High School, he was already carving his own marionettes and selling them to department stores like Bullocks Wilshire, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue, according to a biography included in the application for historic-cultural monument status.
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When Roger Ebert called The Spirits Within a "technical milestone," he was right, and unlike a picture like The Polar Express, which came out three years later, I feel no unease when watching these digital marionettes interacting with one another in the light of 211.
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My personal favorite example of this embrace of the bizarre is from the July 5 episode, when Will Forte tapped in as a puppeteer with seven broken fingers, trying — and failing — to wrangle his marionettes, who were played to stumbling perfection by Rudolph, Short, Day, and Poehler.
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Written and directed by Cinna Vesterberg, with the assistance of Charlie Del Risco, the show combines handmade marionettes, actors, narration and music to relate the adventures of the clown, a shy fellow who leaves the circus on a quest to gain courage — with a little help from his friends.
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The costumes, by the Belgian avant-garde fashion designer Walter van Beirendonck, and the sets, by Mimi Lien, who won a Tony Award for "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," allude to both the Mozartean marionettes of Salzburg, Austria, and the Bauhaus-era ballets of Oskar Schlemmer.
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Among them is Bertrand Dezoteux, whose recent video "Waiting for Mars" used marionettes to portray astronauts who in 2010 and 2011 spent 520 days in an isolation facility in Moscow on a simulated mission to Mars, and the novelist Christine Montalbetti, who published a book last fall about Sandra Magnus, a NASA astronaut who was on the final mission of the United States space shuttle program.
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" Weidel is generally more careful than Gauland, but this month the newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that she wrote a memo in 20 saying Germany was being "overrun by culturally alien peoples such as Arabs, Sinti and Roma" and denouncing the current government as "pigs [who] are nothing other than marionettes of the victorious powers of the second world war, whose task it is to keep down the German people.
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Among hundreds of items, you'll find a Japanese Noh mask; a Hopi kachina; an African power figure; a plastic Virgin Mary from Lourdes; a Mexican glass Christmas ornament in the form of Mickey Mouse; a Chinese hand puppet depicting an American Indian; paired marionettes of two men embracing from India; a carved-wood penis; a snake-vertebrae necklace; and a photograph of a tattoo — of a nude, dancing, madcap angel — that Mr. Tisa designed for the drag performer and playwright Ethyl Eichelberger.
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