Birdbone Theatre Presents: Broom Dance

Event Details

Event type: All Ages / Licensed

Broom Dance

Broom Dance is a shadow puppet show for winter and winter witches, a shadow song for the threshold, for the liminal lace between light and dark, between house and the howling wild. A luminous bow of song and cut paper to wild dark and to winter night. Join us as we traverse magical thresholds into the domain of the forest-dwelling crone, Baba Yaga, from Slavic folklore, whose chicken-legged hut is perched on the realm of the otherworld. Follow us into the enchanted kitchen of the gift-giving Italian witch Befana, and through the wild realm of Matka Boska z wilkami, The Divine mother with wolves from Polish folklore, who tends to the wolves and protects the nearby villagers.

About Birdbone Theatre 

Birdbone Theatre makes puppet shows from scratch and plays them live for the young and the old. We strive to make puppet theatre that might become a house for beauty, for remembering old songs and stories, for wild imaginings and for laughter in hard times. We keep in mind that theatre is a way by which we can know the times we live in, and a way by which the times might recognize us.

We craft our shows with materials at hand, layering techniques, and a vast musicality. We do not banish the unfinished and imperfect in our shows, instead we often play our work in its experimental stages to learn about it. We play music, sing and dance to keep it company. Birdbone theatre is Possibilitarian at heart because it was forged at the Bread and Puppet Theatre under the work of Peter Schumann, and also because it has no choice.

Birdbone Theatre is Aleksandra Bragoszewska (puppeteer, artistic director) and Alison Gowan (puppeteer, musical director). 

more info: http://www.birdbonetheatre.org/