Hello this is Joseph Silovsky and I am just writing to give everyone a general idea of what my focus for the DPI residency will be. Last year I was a part of the Labapalooza puppet lab at St Anne’s Warehouse, and I developed a performance called The Jester of Tonga (I have been researching it for 5 years). As part of the show I built Stanley, an animatronic robot, to play the part of the Jester. Stanley has many skills, including talking, looking around, and riding a tricycle. My main focus here at DPI is to develop his other possibilities. I will try to link to a youtube video once I figure out how to do that. OK cheers, will write more soon…