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the only profession where talking to yourself in funny voices is a paycheck, not a symptom
means A person who controls and animates puppets, giving them movement and voice during a performance.
from Built from "puppet" plus the agent suffix "-eer" (one who does a thing, as in engineer or auctioneer). "Puppet" came into English from Middle French "poupée," meaning doll, and traces back to Latin "puppa" (or "pupa"), a word for a little girl or a doll. That same Latin "pupa" gives us the biological pupa—the doll-like, swaddled stage of an insect—so a puppeteer and a butterfly share a surprisingly tidy linguistic ancestor.
- hidden hands
- Bunraku puppets need three operators working in silent sync
- frog empire
- Jim Henson built a media giant from felt and wire
- war tool
- shadow puppetry spread political satire for over 2000 years
- muscle memory
- top performers train years just to nail believable breathing
jim henson — created the muppets and sesame street, pioneered puppet television from 1955-1990
frank oz — performed miss piggy, fozzie bear, and yoda; directed muppet movies in the 1980s
kansas city puppet festival — annual gathering in kansas city, missouri since 1992 for professional puppeteers