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Puppetopia 2023

Opening Date: Mar 08, 2023

Closing Date: Mar 25, 2023

Puppetopia 2023
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Playing @

HERE

145 6th Ave New York, NY 10013

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HERE's Dream Music Puppetry program presents its second annual Puppetopia, a three-week festival of new puppet theater.

The festival opens on March 8–11 with a shared program of Mother Mold by the puppetry duo It Figures and Tin Iso and the Dawn by Tristan AllenMother Mold is a table top puppet show. It has no beginning or end. It’s about getting lost and found and how to breathe through the in between. Tin Iso and the Dawn is a shadow puppet symphony performed alongside an original album. The project shares the origins of an imaginary world, the first chapter to a grand overarching story told through music and solo puppetry. Wordless narrative, magic lanterns and detailed sound design collide in examining the universal longing to make sense of loss and what’s beyond.

A centerpiece of the festival is the two-week engagement, March 10–19, of Deeper Closer Warmer, a new theatrical collaboration between the Puerto Rico-based puppetry duo Poncili Creación and the New York-based musicians The Daxophone ConsortDeeper Closer Warmer is an ancient surgery that examines the crevices of flesh and consciousness. Large-scale transforming foam puppets, with the shrieks, whistles and melodic coos of an electronic orchestra, reveal a world inside the organism where empires of bacteria will fall and new organic machines will be created.

The final week of the festival features two evening-length works. Running March 22-23, The Emotions is a two-act experimental music performance co-conceived by Korean master instrumentalist gamin and Japanese composer and artist Sachiyo Takahashi. The evening opens with gamin’s The Emotions: Impermanence, an experimental music theater piece exploring avenues to bridge the gap between traditional and modern, movement and stillness, sound and visual. Part two features Takahashi’s The Emotions: Equinox, abstract storytelling through puppets/objects, live projection and original music, developed in collaboration with Korean video and object designer Yudam and puppet builder/puppeteer Emma Wiseman.

Closing Puppetopia on March 24 and 25 is Offal Unstory by Kalan Shh (enormousface), which explores the brutal alchemy the human race has been exacting on the “Natural” world, transforming Life into Garbage. Mixing references from the Great Stories of humanity, beginning with Gilgamesh, so many of which are used to justify human domination over the non-human world, the work will tangle narrative with non-narrative performance and philosophy, examining also the role 'Story' per se takes in the Human Project of Killing the Earth.

Puppetopia is curated by Barbara Busackino and Basil Twist.
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COVID-19 Safety Information

Masks are optional.

Performance Schedule:

Visit here.org for full festival schedule.

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Listed atTKTS

Never

Full-price tickets

$10 - $75

Accessibility:

Wheelchair Info

removable seating.

Seating

Mainstage seats 99 / Dorothy B. Williams Theatre Seats 74.

Elevator\Escalator

There is an elevator that takes you to the lower level thatre.

Curb Ramps

yes

Entrance

houses two performance spaces - the 99-seat Mainstage and the 74-seat Dorothy B. Williams Theatre (down one flight of stairs); art galleries, and a café. The building entrance is street level

Restroom

located on both levels

Water Fountain

There is a cafe

Telephone

none

Assisted Listening System

some hearing aids.

Visual Assistance

none

Folding Armrests

none

Directions Subway

C,E to Spring St.; 1 to Houston St.; R,W to Prince St.

Directions Bus

M21 to Houston St.; M6 to Spring St.

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By Subway:

C,E to Spring St.; 1 to Houston St.; R,W to Prince St.

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By Bus:

M21 to Houston St.; M6 to Spring St.