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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
It's taking over isn't it?
I've seen two performances in Surrey this week & I'm seeing another in Edinburgh in July. The question is - is it just a fad, or the final nail in the coffin. Thoughts ...
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Professor Piper Special user Somewhere, out there... 770 Posts |
??????
Ok, call me stupid, but what the heck is "Gopher Ventriloquism?" Prof. Piper
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Neale Bacon Inner circle Burnaby BC Canada 1775 Posts |
Oh good, I am not the only one who doesn't know.
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
Get with the programme guys!
Yeeshk!
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GWGumby New user Ft Worth 69 Posts |
Which programme are you referring to, and where can I get with it?
I have no clue what Gopher Ventriloquism is either. A Google search doesn't help either. |
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ChrisJ Loyal user Lapeer, MI 226 Posts |
Hmm..Underground Ventriloquism perhaps?
Well...Gophers ARE underground after all... But that's all I have..Perhaps Ask Geeves will know LOL Chris Johnson |
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
Good joke Chris, but they're poppin' up all over the place in my neck of the woods. Just gonna have to wait for it all to die down I guess. P.
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Professor Piper Special user Somewhere, out there... 770 Posts |
So, still no explanation on what "Gopher Ventriloquism" actually is?
What, is this a secret? Come on, give...What is this? Prof. Piper (Terry)
"Nemo has been found! He was on an Admiral's Platter at Red Lobster!"
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
Well, I thought I knew everything.....
Regan
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
I have been going for ventriloquism for quite a while.
Mimes are also making a comeback on american television comercials. Just my two lips worth from Harris Deutsch Laughologist and Nearly Normal Vent.
Harris Deutsch aka dr laugh
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
For those that do not know, I shall explain sooooooon. P.
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
The suspense is killing me.
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Reg New user Bradford 14 Posts |
Regan:If you want your artform to survive and continue earning $140 a week you need to sit up and listen.
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Regan Inner circle U.S.A. 5726 Posts |
I am sitting up, I have been listening, yet I still do not hear anything.
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cardcaptor Loyal user tagaytay, philippines 257 Posts |
"Gopher Ventriloquism"?? this is the first time I encouter this word, I also do ventriloquism but this is the first time I heard read this..
I will wait for the explanation.. thanks!
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
Gopher Ventriloquism is a movement in performance art & installation art founded by a small company of performers in London in 2003. The first season of performances consisted of two gophers, one telling a story, throwing its "voice", & the other mouthing the words. The audible, sensible portions of the story were provided by a team of actors behind a curtain.
Some of the original performances ran for as long as 16 weeks without interval, and audiences came and went paying for an hour or so of the action. They began in pokey little performance spaces above pubs, but a good deal of money was made at the beginning and the shows ventured into the mainstream. Animal rights demonstrations outside the theatres only served to promote the shows further. In larger performance spaces the shows strengthened their accessability by intergrating themselves with organic fine art exhibitions and demonstrations of the consequences of "bisterbile" drugs. The original company has now disbanded, but there are at least 100 independant gopher groups in Britian, and this year will be the second occassion the phenomenon had been seen at the Edinburgh Festival. Whether or not popularity will increase or burn out is any ones guess. Pasq.
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
For the record, I was very much a witness to this movement in the early days, & involved to some extent on the fringes.
At the time I remember an academic called Ronald Haymen wrote in "The Guardian" that GV had satisfied a cultural need in the right place & at the right time, & was capable of articulating the human condition more effectively than any other artform since Beckett.
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RWhit Regular user 151 Posts |
I ve never heard of it and don t really understand your description.Are these puppets or loose on a stage .
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Pasq Elite user Lance Rench-Hausen. 417 Posts |
RWhit, just to be clear: They're 'actual' gophers on stage, not puppets.
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Professor Piper Special user Somewhere, out there... 770 Posts |
Well, then I'm not worried at all about it usurping true Ventriloquism...
Sounds like "Gopher Ventriloquism" is simply a unique (and admittedly funny) animal act. Nothing, and I mean nothing can compare to a expertly manipulated and scripted Ventriloquist act... It's a very real form of Magic, seeing an audience actually accept a ventriloquist figure as a 'real' persona. Prof. Piper
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