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Dear Puppet Happenings Subscriber,
In this issue we would like to draw your attention to multiple puppet happenings that are occurring in New York City and around the country:
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A Dream on a String: Roman Paska & Rodolfo Llinas
Brainwave 2011
Rubin Museum of Art - New York, NY |  |
March 30
7:00pm
Dreams are directly related to the puppet work that Roman Paskacreates. Famed neuroscientistRodolfo Llin�s and the puppeteer explore the boundaries of illusion and perceptions of reality.
Roman Paska is a writer, director and puppeteer whose original productions, under two successive company names, Theatre for the Birds and Dead Puppet, include The End of the World, Dead Puppet Talk, Beethoven in Camera, and Schoolboy Play, which was commissioned by Linz '09 European Capital of Culture and presented in 2010 at the National Theatre of Portugal. He directed August Strindberg'sDreamplay with puppets for its centennial at the Stockholm Stadsteater, and for several years was director of the International Institute of Puppetry in France. His "magical-realist" documentary feature, Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, with John Turturro, premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2009.
| Rodolfo Llin�s is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llin�s has written ten books and has published numerous papers in medicine and science. He has also chaired the NASA/Neurolab Science Working Group and has been recognized with honorary doctorates as well as numerous prizes and commendations.
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Don Cristobal: Billy-Club Man *
Erin Orr & Rima Fand
Flamboyan Theater at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center - New York, NY | |
March 31-April 10
8pm - March 31*, April 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9
2pm - April 3, 10
*Special opening night after-party with sangria, food, and live flamenco performance by La Magdalena
For centuries, the puppet Don Crist�bal has charmed audiences with his drunken, lusty, billy-club wielding antics. But does he secretly struggle with his role as the Billy-Club Man and long for love and escape? Through experimental puppetry, clowning and live music, Don Crist�bal, Billy-Club Man explores the violent appetites of Crist�bal's on-stage persona and follows him off-stage to reveal his poetic possibilities. Inspired by the puppet plays of Federico Garc�a Lorca, the piece features shadow, hand and large figurative puppetry by Erin Orr and evocative original music by Rima Fand.
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* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant (2010) and Seed Grant (2009)
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Potato Needs a Bath *
Shona Reppe Puppets (Scotland)
The New Victory Theater - New York, NY
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April 8-24
April 8, 10, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24 - 10:30am, 12:30pm
April 9, 16, 23 - 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm
April 19 - 10:30am
It's a birthday bash and all the guests are ripe for a good time! Eggplant shows off her glamorous new jewels, the pair of Pears flirt and flit, and Plum needs a potty break. But where is Potato? We can't dance the Mango Tango without Potato! Before he can celebrate with his produce pals, the muddy little spud needs a bath. Superstar storyteller and puppet master Shona Reppe (Cinderella, New Vic 2009) gets giggles and grins galore in this light-hearted, gentle and highly visual show that's perfect for the very young (and young at heart). This tater is a tot-sized treat!
* Funded in part by a Jim Henson Foundation Presenter's Grant (2010)
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The Jungle *
Trouble Puppet Theater Company
Salvage Vanguard Theater - Austin, TX | |
March 16-April 3
Wednesdays-Saturdays - 8:00pm
Sundays - 6:00pm
Trouble Puppet Theater presents a gripping production about the conditions faced by immigrant workers in Chicago's meatpacking industry in The Jungle. A work of puppet theater based on Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle uses a form of puppetry inspired by the Japanese Bunraku style. It includes human choreography, tabletop puppets, life sized, two and three dimensional, and shadow puppetry.
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* Recipient of a Henson Foundation Project Grant (2010) and Seed Grant (2009)
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Puppetry and Postdramatic Discussion
An International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century
University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT
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April 1-3
see website for schedule
Contemporary developments in theatre, the visual arts, and new media are transforming the artistic, critical, conceptual, and commercial landscape for puppetry, one of the world's oldest art forms. Today, the term puppetry can be applied to a wide range of objects and images presented in live and mediated performance. These performing objects and animated images continue to appear in traditional venues, but are also exploiting new territories, crossing between artistic worlds, even as traditional boundaries between the arts themselves break down. While theatrical theory is just awakening to the post-dramatic, puppetry has always thrived independently of a dependence on dramatic text. This conference seeks to explore new approaches to critical thinking and theorizing about puppetry and performing objects of all kinds and to bring new multidisciplinary views to bear on the subject of puppetry-conceived in the broadest terms-in order to enrich, expand, and enliven the field of discourse. This conference is the first international scholarly puppetry conference in the U.S.
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The Kid Inside: an evening of songs, patter, puppets and profanity
Alissa Hunnicutt
The Laurie Beechman Theatre - New York, NY | |
March 24 & 31
Thursdays - 8:00pm
Alissa is back with her unique blend of cabaret and puppetry for an evening of songs, patter, puppets and profanity. This sweet and dirty, multi-media show reminds you of an inevitable truth: the child you once were is still a big part of who you are. The same kid who is open and vulnerable enough to get really hurt, is also the one who remains an eternal optimist, telling you to get up and go on.
The Kid Inside features videos and six styles of puppetry -- hand/rod, shadow, toy theater, table top, found object and marionette.
"The intelligence and emotional roller coaster of this show is one I will never forget..." says Sue Matsuki of Cabaret Hotline Online, "This show is literally a work of art."
Musical Director/Co-Creator Steven Katz
Directed by Warren Kelley
Additional puppeteers: Z Briggs, Honey Goodenough, and Chad Williams
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Shadow Puppet Performance
Cui Yongping & Wang Shuqin
Museum of Chinese in America - New York, NY
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April 3
11:15am
Come view renowned shadow puppeteers, Cui Yongping & Wang Shuqin as they make their U.S. debut with a performance celebrating spring! Cui Yongping and Wang Shuqin are from Bejing, China and have been practicing the art of shadow puppetry for over 40 years. www.cuiyongping.com
All ages
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Sincerely,
The Jim Henson Foundation |
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