MOMENTS was created by Michele Spooner with Avril McQueen in 1986.

These short, non-verbal vignettes portrayed brief 'moments' through the cycle of a woman's life with miniature bunraku puppet figures.

In 1985, Michele studied with Phillipe Genty in a 9-week Masterclass at the Institut Internationale de la Marionette in Charlesville-Mézières in France. The experience deepened her fascination with puppetry techniques and manipulation, and developed her skills in creating performances based on gestural observation.

MOMENTS continued Michele's engagement with Genty's philosophies and concepts. The piece grew from her first vignette, Positive Equals, which expressed the gestures and movements of babyhood. This act had been developed with Peter J.Wilson under Genty's tutelage and was the stimulus of their vignette production Smalls.

MOMENTS vignettes observed a woman at difference ages, Each brief segment was portrayed in beautifully executed puppet manipulation segments that expressed glimpses of a lifetime. Hooded and shadowy puppeteers shared operation of the small white figures in a subtle interaction that explored the relationship between subject and manipulator and created the mood of each moment.

Acts were titled:

*The Baby,
*The Five Year Old
* The Sixteen Year Old
* The Mature Woman
*The Old Woman

MOMENTS was presented by Handspan as part of the Smalls program from 1986

Segments were later included in Women Alone (1989). and some appeared in showcase productions performed by students in the Victorian College of the Arts Puppetry Program (2004 - 2009).