ARTS & CULTURE TRUST’S VISUAL ARTS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Kudos for puppet makers who give shape to debate about humanity
Heather Dugmore: The co-founders of Handspring won recognition for their life-long dedication. Read here what Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler say about the arts in SA
Ideas about our humaneness, our animality and what ‘becoming human’ means are being debated vigorously in humanities research and closely relate to what we are doing in puppetry," says Basil Jones, co-founder and executive producer of the Handspring Puppet Company. Jones and the company’s co-founder and artistic director, Adrian Kohler, are the recipients of the Arts & Culture Trust’s Visual Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Nedbank Arts Affinity. They received their award alongside four other Lifetime Achievement Award recipients at the 20th Arts & Culture Trust Awards at Sun International’s Maslow Hotel in Sandton earlier in November. The Cape Town-based Handspring Puppet Company, or "Handspring" as it is called, was founded by Jones and Kohler in 1981 and for the past 36 years, it has been an artistic wellspring for performers, designers, theatre artists and technicians. Their work has been presented in more than 30 countries worldwide. It includes the renowned theatr...
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