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Professor Claudia Orenstein's Talk at Puppetry Conference Covered in Indian Newspapers

The Dhaatu International Conference on 'Exploring the Classical Roots and Living Traditions of Puppetry' a  three-day puppet festival held in Bengaluru, India with more than 100 participants, had delegates from Belgium, Russia and the US. Among those delegates were Boris Daussa Pastor, 40, a Spanish medical nurse who trained himself in Kerala's famed Kathakali dance form, and currently teaches art at Hunter College, and Claudia Orenstein, associate professor in the Theatre Department at Hunter; together they headed up a group of 13 US students attending the festival. According to the Times of India, this is Professor Orenstein's eighth trip to India. "Puppetry is not a dying art," said Orenstein. "It's an art form struggling to find an audience with new concepts. We have puppetry in the US as well, but it's not based on traditional forms, as in India. But in terms of experimentation, puppeteers in India and US have many similarities."

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