IT IS THE FINAL WEEK OF PUPPETLAB! Don't miss out - Basement Creatures and DUST will be performed one weekend only, Friday, March 6, to Sunday March 8, at 8pm.
Join us for the FIFTH YEAR of never-before-seen puppet performances at HOBT's Avalon Theater.
The four PuppetLab artists are selected from a pool of candidates each fall. They will each perform an original work for one weekend ONLY. Week one is February 27 - March 1st, 7:30PM. Week two is March 6 - 8th, 8pm. Descriptions of the shows are below, and on the HOBT website, here: http://hobt.org/performances/.
Tickets for week one (Jeong Ae Neal, Shari Aronson) here:
plabweek1.brownpapertickets.com
Tickets for week two (Davey T Steinman, Lelis Brito) here:
plabweek2.brownpapertickets.com
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Guided by HOBT Performance Curator Alison Heimstead (a founding member of the Barebones Halloween Spectacular), four artists are selected from a pool of candidates to create entirely original works of puppet theater in seven jam-packed months. This year’s PuppetLab artists are a diverse group: choreographer and director of the Center for Moving Cultures Lelis Brito, multidisciplinary artist Davey T Steinman, Shari Aronson of Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, and South Korean spectacle artist Jeong Ae Neal.
February 27-March 1 @ 7:30pm
Princess Bari
Written and performed by Jeong Ae Neal
A Korean folktale, retold. Princess Bari is the tale of a young woman abandoned by her parents, who crosses from the land of the living into death and back again. It is a tale of miraculous recovery, of resurrection, of return.
Cellula
Written and performed by Shari Aronson, with musical improvisation from Mankwe Ndosi and Libby Turner-Opanga.
A glowing magnification of mitosis, through the eyes of mother and child. This blacklight performance of cell division illuminates the true marvels happening inside us all.
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March 6-8 @ 8:00pm
Basement Creatures
Created by Davey T Steinman and Company
This wild rock opera follows the journey of a subterranean explorer. Featuring a stellar band, haunting choral voices, aerial arts, video manipulation, and puppetry peculiarities from the underworld.
Dust
Written and performed by Lelis Brito
A meditation on the long life of rocks and the short life of people, this movement-driven piece plunges the audience into a world of puppets, kinesthetic sculptures, an altered voice chorus, and oozing dancers.
