Twig: February 2009

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Finished Monk Puppet

Several months ago I submitted a performance project idea to the Freehold Theatre Studio Series 2009. Students, alumni and staff were invited to submit a project idea that would be workshopped over 3 months culminating in a performance no longer than 30 minutes. My project was selected!

The proposal was to finish building the Monk puppet, find a 12 minute story through the rehearsal process and put it up in front of an audience. This was something I hadn't done yet. At the time I only had his trunk and legs built. The arms were challenging and I questioned whether I was going to get him done in time.

He did get done in time! We just performed this past weekend..February 20th & 21st.

AND I just received word that we were one of the pieces that made it into the Studio Series Encore weekend. YaY.

I will eventually post some video of the little guy moving!

Monk Puppet in the workshop

I want to thank Rob D'Arc for all his guidance with Little Man. My apprenticeship with Rob quickly turned to friendship! We worked well together on many projects. I deeply admire Robs' gifts and engineering ability....he is a genius puppeteer and you can see his work here..
http://gallery.passion4art.com/members/puppeteer/index.html

Just before he got his "skin"!

TWIG Theatre

Twig Theatre is the name given to the work I do with puppets. As well, it is the name of the mobile (puppet) theatre cart I am currently building. (see below)

My vision for this Old World Gypsy theatre is to roll up to any location, open the doors, hang the flickering lanterns, begin the music and Illuminate the night (or day!) with strange and magical puppet beings!

I feel very excited to bring this type of "soul medicine" to the community. To the parks and streets, the town centers, to festivals and sacred fire ceremonies, to our war veterans, our hospitals, our prisons, outside theatre gatherings and backyard shindigs.... anywhere people feel called to this experience.

My desire to share this experience...

My vision for Twig Theatre is to share with you that which inspires and moves me.. My puppetry has come to be the perfect medicine for me. As well as connecting me deeply to natures' shadowy raw magical-ness....It keeps me in touch with my own animating breath, my purpose here, the joy of living in my truth and simple beingness. It is enough that I am here breathing...there is nothing more to become. Little Man Monk is my teacher of "beingness"

Herein this blog lies the creation process of Twig Theatre in its many parts...magical puppet beings, traveling theatre cart, Kickstarter project, photographs and videos, performances and processes, thawts and dreams.....