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SECOND BIRTH

(GHOST)

Created, designed, and built by Nikolai  Zykov in 1989.

High resolution photo.

Puppet form: short strings transforming marionette.

Height: 89 cm / 35 in.

Materials: papier-mache, foam plastic, foam rubber, wood, metal wire, fabric.

First presentation - December 23, 1989, Concert Hall of the Moscow Energetic University.

This very difficult transforming puppet is made according to the ancient Indian philosophy.

 

 

 

Step 1: dance of the puppet (a head without eyes).

Step 2: separation of the head.

Step 3: dance of the puppet without head.

Step 4: opening of soul.

Step 5: birth of new head.

Step 6: dance of the puppet (a head with eyes).

Second birth in TV show, Leningrad, USSR, 1990.

Second birth in film "Nikolai Zykov Theatre of marionettes", Moscow, Russia, 1993.

 

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