Miroslav Trejtnar is an acknowledged master puppeteer and teacher of traditional Czech marionette making skills.

A lot of top American jazz musicians performed in Sydney during the seventies, and major players such as Dave Liebman, John Scofield and Miroslav Vitous gave master classes and workshops while they were here.

* Richard Bradshaw OAM-One time director of the Marionette Theatre of Australia, and master shadow puppeteer

* Albrecht Roser-German master puppeteer based in Stuttgart, famous for his puppet Grandmother

* Nikolai Zykov-Soviet and Russian actor, director, artist, designer, puppet-maker, master puppeteer.

Richard Hunt, who, in Jon Stone's words, joined the Muppets as a " wild-eyed 18-year-old and grew into a master puppeteer and inspired teacher ", created Gladys the Cow, Forgetful Jones, Don Music, and the construction worker Sully.

Moon, Henry Hopkins, Henry Frederick More Smith and William Newman ) was a confidence man, master puppeteer, hypnotist, seer, liar, and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick, Canada.

It is up to the conductor or dalang or master puppeteer to decide his direction.

During the first half, known as the " show platform " ( 戲台 ), the audience is shown a demonstration by a master puppeteer on the stage.

Ultimately the experienced puppeteer will master phonetic diction, in which the degree to which the puppet's mouth is open at any given point mimics the motion of the human mouth forming the same series of sounds ; thus, the mouth will be open wide for a long O vowel, briefly close almost completely when forming a dental stop, and so forth.

After starring in the show for 6 years, Arias returned to New York where he starred in Arias with a Twist, a collaboration with master puppeteer Basil Twist at HERE Arts Center.

Michahelles has also worked in collaboration with master puppeteer Basil Twist.

In the traditional literature he is referred to almost exclusively as Rav, " the Master ", ( both his contemporaries and posterity recognizing in him a master ), just as his teacher, Judah I, was known simply as Rabbi.

Students enter the roda against a high-ranked capoeirista ( a teacher or master ) and normally the game ends with the student being taken down.

Their art, though varying in style and technique, was the antithesis of the type of Academic art in which Beaux was trained and of which her teacher William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a leading master.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

As Maroger's teacher, Anquetin provided guidance in the study of drawing, anatomy and master painting techniques.

" After students completed their post-graduate education, they were awarded doctorates giving them the status of faqih ( meaning " master of law "), mufti ( meaning " professor of legal opinions ") and mudarris ( meaning " teacher "), which were later translated into Latin as magister, professor and doctor respectively.

Alban Berg, the man Adorno referred to as " my master and teacher ," was among the most prescient of his young pupil's early friends:

The once-obscure Shangpa Kagyu, which was famously represented by the 20th century teacher Kalu Rinpoche, traces its history back to the Indian master Naropa via Niguma, Sukhasiddhi and Kyungpo Neljor.

It took him many years to master calculus, however, without a teacher.

This is one reason that Haredim will often prefer using Hebrew names for rabbinic titles based on older traditions, such as: Rav ( denoting " rabbi "), HaRav (" the rabbi "), Moreinu HaRav (" our teacher the rabbi "), Moreinu (" our teacher "), Moreinu VeRabeinu HaRav (" our teacher and our rabbi / master the rabbi "), Moreinu VeRabeinu (" our teacher and our rabbi / master "), Rosh yeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), Rosh HaYeshiva (" head the yeshiva "), " Mashgiach " ( for Mashgiach ruchani ) (" spiritual supervsor / guide "), Mora DeAsra (" teacher / decisor " the / this place "), HaGaon (" the genius "), Rebbe (" rabbi "), HaTzadik (" the righteous / saintly "), " ADMOR " (" Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabeinu ") (" our master, our teacher and our rabbi / master ") or often just plain Reb which is a shortened form of rebbe that can be used by, or applied to, any married Jewish male as the situation applies.

In addition to writing and editing, he has worked as a puppeteer and school music teacher.

In the show, he began experimenting with techniques that would change the way puppetry had been used on television, including using the frame defined by the camera shot to allow the puppeteer to work from off-camera.

This may be so, but one of the characteristics of puppetry is that very often the puppeteer assumes the joint roles of puppet-maker, director, designer, writer and performer.

He spends the next eight months in Malkovich's body and through his control, turns Malkovich into a world-famous puppeteer, revitalizing puppetry.

He was the first non-Japanese to train and perform in Japan as a traditional puppeteer in the style of puppetry commonly known as Bunraku or ningyō jōruri, making his stage debut in 1994 with the 170-year-old Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe in Shiga Prefecture.

The Jim Henson Foundation was founded by puppeteer and Muppet creator Jim Henson to promote and develop puppetry in the United States.

In 2006, Atlanta puppeteer Raymond Carr dramatized a humorous take on his background in Christian puppetry in the performance A Sunday Morning Puppet Show at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

Redican left puppetry to focus on comedy when the Frantics formed in 1979 but he returned briefly in the late 80s to appear as a featured actor and puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company on NBC's The Jim Henson Hour.

The school offers 100 undergraduate, postgraduate, research degrees, and short courses in acting, actor training, applied theatre, theatre crafts & making, design, drama therapy, movement, musical theatre, performance, producing, puppetry, research, scenography, stage management, teacher training, technical arts, voice, and writing.