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Puppetry for Immersive Artists: A Viewpoints Workshop with Katy Williams
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June 14 | 1–3pm | Pay-What-You-Can
1373 Grant St, Denver, CO 80030
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At Audacious Immersive, we believe that puppets are one of the most effective tools for bringing creatures, characters, and entire worlds to life—especially when your stories live in more fantastical realms. Puppetry allows for a level of interactivity, spontaneity, and surprise that fits beautifully into immersive work.
That’s why we’re so excited to offer this special workshop with one of Colorado’s most inventive puppetry artists: Katy Williams.
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In this hands-on session, Katy will introduce participants to Viewpoints—a powerful creative tool for devisers, directors, puppeteers, and performers who want to unlock new ways of creating movement and character onstage. Rather than focusing on traditional puppet manipulation, Viewpoints encourages artists to explore space, time, and instinct through nine core elements: Spatial Relationship, Kinesthetic Response, Shape, Gesture, Repetition, Architecture, Tempo, Duration, and Topography.
You’ll start without puppets to get comfortable with the method, and then move into playful exercises with simple blank puppets (scarves, bags, and basic forms), where surprising characters emerge organically.
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Whether you’re an experienced performer or just curious to try something new, this workshop is designed to spark creativity and free you from the pressure of “getting it right.” You’ll leave with new tools for movement, devising, and world-building—perfect for immersive and interactive storytelling.
About the Instructor:
Katy Williams is a Denver-based puppet builder, performer, and educator whose work has brought countless magical creatures to life for Colorado stages—including the creature designs for Van Helsing’s Daughters (Audacious Immersive, 2019). Her latest creation, The Big Bug Adventure, premieres at the 2025 Denver Fringe Festival the week before this workshop. This bilingual, interactive puppet musical follows Stripes the Caterpillar on a colorful journey of teamwork and transformation, featuring original music by Ben Morris and Katy’s signature puppet artistry.
Pay-What-You-Can Pricing:
This workshop is part of Audacious Immersive's ongoing effort to help build a stronger, better-trained immersive arts community in Denver. We believe that if we want great collaborators, we need to help create opportunities for artists to learn and level up — and we don’t want cost to be the reason people miss out. If you’re able to contribute financially, your payment helps us cover costs and keep offering workshops like this. But if paying isn’t doable right now, we’d still rather have you in the room, learning, experimenting, and building your skills.