🎭 Workshop: Puppet Technique — Breath, Stillness & Life

Tailored for actors, directors, and interdisciplinary theatre makers, this hands-on workshop explores the foundational principles of animating the inanimate. Drawing on the Japanese Bunraku tradition and contemporary physical theatre, participants will learn Lone Wolf Tribe’s approach to creating authentic, emotionally resonant puppet life.

Through ensemble and solo improvisations, we study the balance between movement and stillness—the essential rhythm that gives puppets breath and soul. Students engage with exercises in gravity, impulse, and focus to develop a felt understanding of what it means to co-create life on stage.

Participants should dress appropriately for movement.

About the facilitator

Kevin Augustine is the founder and artistic director of Lone Wolf Tribe, a Brooklyn-born physical theatre company merging puppetry, movement, and ritual. His handmade foam puppets and wordless, deeply human performances explore compassion, loss, and renewal. His work has toured internationally, earning multiple awards including the Grand Prix at the Lalka Też Człowiek Festival in Warsaw.

Lone Wolf Tribe creates visually arresting, emotionally charged puppet theatre that bridges the human and nonhuman worlds. Each production explores the intersection of spirit and flesh—how our inner lives manifest through gesture, breath, and form. Using handcrafted foam puppets and movement-based performance, the company seeks to awaken empathy, confront suffering, and celebrate transformation.Founded by Kevin Augustine, the Tribe’s work exists between ritual and theatre, often wordless, revealing the fragile beauty of being alive.