Students in Tisch School of the Arts Asia’s Animation and Digital Arts program recently studied with two of the world’s leading puppeteers, Mirek Trejtnar & Zdar Sorm.
Trejtnar has a long connection with puppetry. He concentrated on woodcarving at the Arts and Crafts High School in Prague. From there he went on to study puppet design at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Miroslav also spent time training at the Institut UNIMA in Charleville-Mézières, France. He also worked with the Bread and Puppet Theatre, USA.
Šorm has over 20 years experience in charge of technological design of puppets for animated films at Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic. For a number of years, he had worked with Miroslav Trejtnar in teaching students of puppetry. Šorm has made puppets for Marek Becka, Mike Hunt, and numerous other puppeteers.
