Seattle Times
Walk into the Fremont studio of puppetmaker Annett Mateo and you’ll find yourself in a marionette menagerie. There’s a swan and an elephant from Camille Saint-Saën’s “Carnival of the Animals” and a tortoise and hare from “Aesop’s Fables” — both productions Mateo put together for the King County and Seattle library systems. Mateo’s new puppet project, however, is more mainstream: a hand-puppet rock band modeled on Jim Henson’s Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem from “The Muppet Show.” They’re part of an interactive exhibit that’s an add-on to “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” a traveling retrospective of the puppeteer/filmmaker’s career opening at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame on Saturday.