Drawing inspiration from the leading man in Petrouchka (a clown puppet),  this week we are bringing you all manner of puppet videos.  Now, we aren’t saying these themes will actually appear up in Nicolo Fonte’s world premiere of Petrouchka in October, but we do think there are some amazing puppet videos out there, so we ran with it.

The creative minds (and bodies) at Pilobolus have been master shape shifters since 1971. For their recent show Shadowland, they created their own body bending version of shadow puppets. Here they go WAY outside the standard shadow puppet box at the Academy Awards. What we wouldn’t give to see what’s going behind that screen…