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Rachel Riggs
As Artistic Director of Dynamic New Animation (DNA), Rachel Riggs
is an experienced artist/performer, educator and producer of puppetry
performances for all ages and abilities.
Previous work includes:
- 2005
Creative Partnerships, Salford- working with Crab Lane
Primary reception class on achieving literacy objectives through
creative play.
Eureka! Museum for Children, Halifax - Training play enablers
in puppetry technique.
Watermark, Preston - Professional development sessions for artists
and educators.
STARS Blackpool - summer residency working with special needs
groups.
Puppets a Go Go! Festival Puppetry workshops
- 2004
Life Education – training for visiting school
health workers
Connexions – DNA worked with teenagers in Oxfordshire combining
various puppetry & video techniques
Arts in The Parks- Mask workshops with special needs schools in
Preston
Teacher training- Bethnal Green Children's Museum
The Lyric Hammersmith -early years tissue play workshops
Professional Development Training workshop 'Imaginary Leaps -
transformational theatre' - Horse and Bamboo.
Liverpool Museum – Workshops to accompany puppet exhibition
Henshaw Society for the Blind, Manchester- musical puppets and
object play residency
Phoenix Youth Arts Bolton - building a giant processional puppet
for arts week
- 2003
Total Theatre Talks 2003 - discussion on design and scenography.
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Specialist direction for 'The BFG' - Bolton Octagon (puppetry
sequences)
Puppetry Training for Bethnal Green Childrens Museum Gallery Educators.
Assistant director 'Grim Tales' - Dukes Theatre, Lancaster
Professional Development Training workshop 'The Animated Other'
- Horse and Bamboo.
Director 'The Enormous Turnip' - Dynamic New Animation
Artistic Director - 'Puppet Up!' 1997 - 2003 Blackpool Festival
of Puppetry and Visual Theatre.
2002
Artist at the Tate Britain, London, Teacher Librarian Training
in Puppetry Techniques for the Young Cultural Creators Literacy
Programme.
Director with Bob Frith 'Skin Deep Circus' Arts Council Research
and Development.
Professional Development Training workshop 'Traditional Techniques
to Contemporary Practice' - Horse and Bamboo, Rossendale. Puppetry
Director for the Discover Childrens Centre, London - Storybuilders
Director - 'Chicken Licken' touring shows including the National
Theatre, London.
Company Residency week at Bispham High School Arts College (Year
7) making Carnival Costumes for the Commonwealth Games Parade,
Manchester.
2001
Puppet Centre Active Board member for 5 years.
Director-'SRE:production' sex and relationship education through
puppetry performance
Director 'Sweetie Pie' - touring show.
Theatre Centre One week residency at Carden School, Brighton,
for production 'Violet and The Angel'
Barbican Festival consultant to weekend of puppetry activities
linked to Julie Taymor 'The King Stag'
Portsmouth University lecture demonstration for post-grad drama
students
TATE education Two days of Training for Teachers Librarians at
Tate Britain.
2000
Artist in Residence for the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith working
with local schools with Shadow theatre inspired by the xmas production
of 'Pinocchio'.
Artist at the Tate Modern using puppetry to bring art alive for
children, work inspired by the Louise Bourgeoise installation.
Forum 28, Barrow artist in residence at Springboard an activity
program run by Ashton Group contemporary theatre
1998/99
- Specialist Puppetry Workshops for Life Education Drugs Education
Centre
- Artist at the Tate Gallery, London, on 'Constructing Identities'
& 'Visual Paths to Literacy'
- Spec Needs Puppetry Workshop Leader for The
Little Angel Theatre
- Co-ordinator and facilitator of professional development workshops
in puppetry for the Edinburgh Puppet and Animation Festival, British
Festival Of Visual Theatre, and the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
- Puppets & Poems -Two week residency at St Mary's and St
Michael's RC school, London, working with nursery and reception
classes on puppetry and visual theatre
1997
- Artistic Director - Puppet
Up!97& 99 Blackpool Festival of Puppetry.
Education Programme co-ordinator - Puppet
Up!97& 99
1996
- Puppeteer on 'Dr Xargle' TV series for HTV. Straight and reverse
scan lip-sync. to pre-recorded soundtrack. Director - Andrew Gosling.
- Designer/Director of 'I, Object' BAC youth theatre performance.
- Puppeteer in 'The Kitchen of Life' at BAC 'Time Out Critics
Choice'.
- Blow Down project for Holly Street Public Arts, Hackney.
- Puppet making workshops for Phoenix Festival & Virgin 96.
- International Mime Festival workshop with Stephen Mottram.
- Puppeteer in 'Hotch Potch House' - BBC TV Education
- Workshop leader for 'Sticking With the Rainforest' Kazzum Arts
Project to create rainforest pilot project for school residencies.
Drayton Park school.
- Attended Shadows of the Past, Indian shadow puppetry and dance
masterclass with Mrinalini Sarabhai, Norwich Puppet Theatre.
1995
- Project leader for the Puppet Centre's 'Shadow Me'- special
needs puppetry performance project linking schools.
- Puppet Designer/Maker for 'Tom Thumb and the Dragon' youth theatre
project and 'The Adventures of Tom Thumb' for St George's Theatre,
Luton.
- Designer/Maker of life-size puppet for Theatre Workshop, Manchester.
- 'Technique Meets Fantasy' string puppetry masterclass with Albrecht
Roser, Amsterdam Summer University.
- Puppeteer in 'Muppet Treasure Island' - Jim Henson Productions.
Director - Brian Henson.
- Carnival project at Parliament Hill school. Workshop leader
for Kazzum Arts.
- Puppeteer in 'Tiny & Crew' - The Children's Channel TV. Director
- Amelia Johnson.
- Puppeteer in 'The Picture Stick' special needs show for Caught
in the Act T.I.E.
- Workshop leader for Bermondsey Village SE1 community performance
project.
1994
- Puppeteer with PuppetCraft in 'Sir Fool's Quest' by Adrian Mitchell
- National tour. Director - John Roberts.
- Certificate in woodcarving marionettes at the Little
Angel Theatre.
- Puppeteer/designer in The Cabinet
of Hearts, performed at DNA Cabaret - London, Glastonbury
Festival, Charleville World Puppetry Festival & LUTKE '95 festival-Slovenia.
- Puppetry & Mask Workshops - Homerton Teacher Training College,
Cambridge & North London University.
- Assistant Puppeteer for 'Mortimer & Arabella' and 'Artrageous'
- BBC TV.
- 'Where The Wild Things Are' - Maskmaking and Performance with
Special Needs children for European project, - Manor Park School,
London.
1993 - 1994
- Puppeteer with Movingstage Marionette Company in 'All He Fears',
by Howard Barker - National Tour
- Puppeteer for 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' - Children's Rod Puppet
Show.
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Puppeteer and Stage Manager with The Little
Angel Marionette Theatre in "Odessa and the Magic Goat", by
John Agard - National Tour. Director - Christopher Leith
1993 - Advanced Diploma in Puppetry - The
Central School of Speech and Drama, London. TV Puppetry Workshop
with Francis Wright & Richard Coombs. Group Production with Faulty
Optic.
1992
- Commedia dell'arte mask making - Florence, Italy.
- Stage Manager - Open Zip Theatre Company, Manchester.
- Chaos Arts - Freelance creative artist leading workshops in
Puppetry, Mask Making, Mosaic and Performance Arts in mainstream
and spec. needs schools.
- 'A Piece Of Cake' Mosaic Project - Co Ordinator of 10 spec.
needs and mainstream schools, creating a giant mosaic. Presented
at Manchester Festival
1991
- Puppeteer and Stage Manager for "The SuperTed Magic Show" -
National tour. Designed, built and performed puppet sequence for
show.
- Certificate in Practical Theatre Arts (Distinction) - The Arden
Drama Centre, Manchester.
1990
- Youth theatre worker for Contact Theatre, Manchester.
- 'The Dinner Party' - 10 Special Needs Schools Project in Visual
and Performance Arts.
- Certificate in Community and Recreational Arts (Commendation)
- Manchester Polytechnic.
- Trainee Puppeteer with Doo Cot Theatre of Objects and Figures.
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