Dragonfly Puppet

Hello team! My group consists of Christopher, Becca, Alex from Puppetry, and myself, and we are creating puppets that will process the audience from one station to another. We have all sorts of interesting designs for puppets that have soundmakers or sound technologies attached to them to provide atmosphere.

One particular idea we had that I am excited about is a large dragonfly puppet, the design of which is pasted below this paragraph. It is a huge puppet, about seven feet in length, with a ten foot wingspan. There is one operator controlling the body of the puppet using a backpack controller, something that Alex seemed pretty excited about experimenting with. There will be one or two other operators controlling the wings of the puppet. What I am most excited about with this design is that the "veins" of the wings will all be lined with tambourine rivets or pieces of metal to provide a shimmery/twinkly/windy sort of sound. I am hoping with a ten foot wingspan, the sound will really create an interesting atmosphere and be an exciting visual for the audience. Right now we are thinking about building the dragonfly using a wire frame, with the fabric that looks like chlorinated water - it's a cool electric blue color that, oddly enough, is actually very similar to the pigment seen on many dragonfly exteriors in the wild, such as the image pasted below.