the performance

actors animate a material object from the inside out, using there own feelings, bodies and voices to express. Puppeteers must learn to inhabit the material object from the outside in.

Henryk Jurkowski points to this in his definition of puppert theatre as an art in which, "the speaking and performing object makes temporal use of physical sources for its vocal and driving powers, which are present beyond the object". defines the way the puppeteers of Warhorse relate to their object.

Jurkowski, Henryk. 1983. the Transcodification of the signs of puppets. Semiotica 47, 1/4:123-46 Article?

The puppeteer neares the front leads the horse, controlling its head with a rod and using levers to operate the ears. all three make their own noises - including whinnying and snorting.