{"id":4860,"date":"2021-03-24T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:25:18","slug":"inspiring-puppetry-musical-preview-5-designing-the-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/blog\/2021\/03\/24\/inspiring-puppetry-musical-preview-5-designing-the-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inspiring Puppetry Musical&#8221; &#8211; Preview 5: Designing the Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>&#8220;Sophia Lovell Smith\u2019s rod puppets don impressively intricate costumes and are controlled by Calkin and Wood with pin-point precision and distinctive choreography that lends each character a unique personality.<\/i><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/div>\n<div>The Stage<i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>This week Sophia Lovell Smith talks to us about\u00a0<i>Designing the Puppets.<\/i><i><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i>Each of our powerful STEM Sisters comes from a different time period, and Sophia brings those different styles, as well as\u00a0an element of each STEM Sister&#8217;s skills and knowledge, into their costume: Computer Programmer Ada Lovelace has computer punch cards in her crinoline, and astronomer Hyaptia has stars in her skirt. What other character-defining elements can you see in our other STEM Sisters costumes?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\" style=\"background-color: #7936d1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/stemsisters\/\">PREVIEW: Designing the Puppets<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why not make an event of it and share this with your friends and family?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>&#8220;<\/i><i>This is a production that can be appreciated on several levels and it is most definitely worth seeing with your children<\/i><i>.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/www.londonlivinglarge.com\/2021\/03\/jina-and-stem-sisters-hmdt-music-online.html\" href=\"https:\/\/sender12.zohoinsights.com\/ocgeturl\/2d6f.327230a?l=7a2e1391-8ca3-11eb-98dd-52540064429e&amp;m=7a2d5040-8ca3-11eb-98dd-52540064429e&amp;h=8479968577525c9efb4d390fbbbad52c8aca77a7fa8590060e2fb6603f056b1f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><span style=\"color: #000000;\">London Living Large<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Featuring puppeteers Ruth Calkin and Nix Wood,\u00a0singers: Nadine Benjamin, Eloise Eisenberg, Abigail Kelly, Susan Moore, Jessica Gillingwater and the I Can Sing! Children\u2019s Chorus, with the STEM Sisters band directed by Jenny Gould.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>For\u00a0<\/b><b>ALL ages<\/b>\u00a0from 8+.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Streaming NOW! until<b>\u00a011 April.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"button\" style=\"background-color: #7936d1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/stemsisters\/\">Find out more and BOOK tickets HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sophia Lovell Smith\u2019s rod puppets don impressively intricate costumes and are controlled by Calkin and Wood with pin-point precision and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}