Handspring Puppet Company - Book launch 19 November Nov 13, 2009
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Sue reveals yet another surprising side on Glee Nov 13, 2009
If I have a pregnant girl doing a handspring into a double layout, the judges aren't going to be admiring her impeccable form, they're going to be wondering if the centrifugal force is going to make the baby's head start crowning. (OK. And ewww. (MSNBC -- Television)
Consistency vaults South gymnasts to top Nov 1, 2009
"I haven't been making it very often. It's not that difficult a vault, a handspring front, I'm just a bad vaulter. It's hard for me to twist and make the landing.". East's Celina Brown was the top vaulter at the meet, earning a score of 9. (Anchorage Daily News)
Youth Focus--Darcy Moreland Oct 6, 2009
Shoot from their horse or do a back handspring or tuck. 14. (Brenham Banner, TX)
Real-Time Search Meets Online Dating - Gelato Launches at DEMOfall 2009 Sep 24, 2009
The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. (PR Newswire)
More of this story Sep 10, 2009
It features three non-competitive teams and offers tumbling and back handspring classes for cheerleaders. For more information, call 245-8863, or visit its Web site at. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Wooden performers set to wow Edinburgh Aug 25, 2009
But Adrian Kohler, founder of the Handspring Puppet Company, said wooden figures on stage had "an ancient, totemic and magical quality" ... " Very sophisticatedThe singers also have another important role in this production. They hold the hands of the puppets and manipulate some of their movements. The puppeteers control the head and the other arm. Kohler, 57, founded Handspring in 1981 and began by producing work for children. He said there had definitely been a revival in interest in puppetry.... (BBC News -- UK)
Super Soccer Stars May 9, 2009
In a departure from the American sports-movie ethos, very little time is spent on the soccer field itself, and the actors don't go out of their way to resemble real athletesin fact, unless I blinked and missed it, we never see Bernal's Tato in the act of kicking a ball (though we do see him turn a credible handspring after scoring a goal). The climactic soccer scene cleverly (some might say too cleverly) boils the brothers' fates down to the outcome of one last all-important penalty kick. (Slate)
Leaping, learning May 4, 2009
Ten-year-old Jenny King s eyes get wide as she describes in vivid detail how to do a handspring. A few minutes later, she does not one, not two, but several in succession. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Music review: Kentridge's 'Return of Ulysses' Mar 27, 2009
The sorcery of "The Return of Ulysses" owes much to the eerie anthropomorphism of the puppets, the work of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company; much to the musical excellence of Seattle's Pacific Operaworks led by musical director Stephen Stubbs; and most of all to Kentridge's probingly humanistic approach. Monteverdi's late masterpiece frames its Homeric material with an allegorical tableau in which the figures of Time, Fortune and Love exult in their power over a character identified as... (San Francisco Chronicle)
What the nose knows of an artist's hand Mar 18, 2009
chner's "Woyzeck," he began collaborating with the Handspring Puppet Company in Cape Town and made animated films as the backdrop for their large wooden puppets. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
As Zuma nears power, South Africa squirms Mar 13, 2009
This leniency is reserved for the terminally ill, but the skeptical suppose the new parolee will now somehow handspring back to health. Through a spokesman, Zuma denied playing any role in the release, but just days earlier he said that as president he would use medical grounds to pardon Shaik, his close friend from the liberation struggle and his financial adviser thereafter. (International Herald Tribune)
When prosecution meets a presidency in South Africa Mar 12, 2009
This leniency is reserved for the terminally ill, but those who are skeptical suppose the new parolee will now somehow handspring back to health. Through a spokesman, Zuma denied playing any role in the release, but just days earlier he said that as president he would use medical grounds to pardon Shaik, his close friend from the liberation struggle and his financial adviser thereafter. (International Herald Tribune)
Girl, 7, sets her sights on success Mar 7, 2009
After two years of practicing and competing with the team, the 7-year-old Sacred Heart second-grader is able to do a round off handspring step out round off handspring tuck. This advanced pass helped Azi to secure the titles of mini level best cheerleader, mini level best tumbling pass and mini level best jumps at the Cheer Power Association competition in San Diego on Feb. 21. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Gymnastics flips boy's medical condition Mar 6, 2009
He turned cartwheels and performed back handsprings during a recent trip to Disney World, and he auditioned for the TV show "America's Got Talent" when he was 6 ... "I bet him that if gas dropped below $2 a gallon, I'd have to do a back handspring," Donlon said. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Cheese and whine Feb 28, 2009
Normally, he would have pinballed himself off of one wall into the next room and up the stairs and down the banister and onto the counter and into the cupboard and over the back of the couch and double handspring his way onto our bed and jump onto the sink and that was just before breakfast. Just as I was starting to accept that this was going to be a vacation of rest and renewal, I woke up with a wrenching feeling in my gut. (Burlington Union, MA)
Terps Take Crown At Cheersport Feb 17, 2009
Sophomore Season Daugherty helped the Terps improve their running tumbling score from Day 1 to Day 2 with her powerful and beautifully executed pass: whip full handspring, handspring double. Sophomore Britney Fonfara's partner stunt went up a little shaky, but she pulled her heel stretch so strong at the top that it was virtually undetectable. (Umterps.com)
Terps In First After Day One At Cheersport Feb 15, 2009
Sophomore Samantha Johnson nailed all of her tumbling, including a standing full twisting back flip and a standing two handspring to double full twist. Another sophomore, Britney Fonfara, beautifully performed the top level of the routine's second pyramid, a position that she was put in only two days ago. (Umterps.com)
