NAO KOBAYASHI
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Nao Kobayashi (pronounce like "now") designs and creates puppets and costume for theatre, museums, institutes, and entertainment. Originally from Japan recently in California, she holds a degree of a master of fine arts in costume design and technology from San Diego State University, a bachelor of arts in technical theater from Sonoma State University. Over the past decade she has worked on various projects with dance and theater productions, fashion and entertainment companies, as well as artworks with independent artists, dancers, musicians and performers in Japan and artists from other countries. In puppetry, she uses her skills of sculpture, fabric, and martial art and dance as movement and body study. She often works in creative teams with interdisciplinary characteristics, by expanding ideas to cross borders, as well as deepening and refining details. |
