In the courtyard a few steps away, oversized brides and grooms waited for their big days. These giant puppets, animated by the dancers who wear them, are called mojigangas (moh-he-GAHN-gahs).

Jean-Claude Dehix's first memory of puppets was as a seven-year-old boy in France. It was a scene created by his puppeteer father. "There were two dogs, and they were both playing on swings ...

so despite what Gaby Hoffman shouts at Benedict Cumberbatch in the first trailer for “Eric,” it makes perfect sense that a New York puppeteer would a big blue puppet to help find his missing son.