Jill Joubert
Jill Joubert (19*-). Puppeteer.
Not to be confused with the Eastern Cape journalist Jill Joubert who died in 1995 aged 67.
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Biography
Jill Joubert was first introduced to puppetry through her BA Art lecturer, Stephen de Villagers, during her art teachers’ training course at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, in 1975.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She helped make the puppets and was a puppeteer for Gertie's Feathers by Adrian Kohler (The Space, 1976) and performed in Kashku Saves the Circus.
Joubert became a founder member of Handspring Puppet Company with Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones and John Weinberg from 1981 to 1983. She made two adult puppet stories in 1993 and 1994 that she performed from time to time for intimate audiences. Joubert became the principal of the Frank Joubert Art Centre in 1997 where she developed refined techniques of teacher training in puppetry. Joubert’s theoretical research into African mask and figurine traditions heavily informed her practice of puppetry. Focusing on African archetypes, mythology and a unique found-object aesthetic, Joubert has created evocative productions, including Creation Stories form the Richtersveld (2007).
Sources
Astbury 1979.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne 1988.
https://wepa.unima.org/en/south-africa/
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