Inspired by Japanese Butoh dance and performed to a bittersweet electroacoustic score, this minimalistic spectacle partners exquisitely sculpted foam-rubber puppets in a wordless exploration of life’s beautiful impermanence.
Recommended for ages 11+
Oversized body limbs stripped of their skin become a hauntingly romantic moving sculpture of muscles, tendons, and bone. Achingly animated in an extremely rigorous choreography, Lone Wolf Tribe’s Kevin Augustine performs solo, bringing his puppets to unusual life with his hands, feet, and outstretched legs.
At 50 minutes, a series of dream-like vignettes elevates our shared human journey, highlighting our vulnerability and resiliency as the boundaries of puppetry itself are expanded. Performed without a text and accented with heartbreaking hints of nature, BODY CONCERT poetically resonates: we are alive with life all around us.
Musical Composition: Mark Bruckner
Lighting Design: Ayumu Poe Saegusa
Masks & Moldmaking: Gloria Sun
Technical Wizard & Set Design: Ilya Vett
Puppets/Direction/Performance: Kevin Augustine
A co-production with Canadian company Les Sages Fous, BODY CONCERT was developed at artist colonies Yaddo, Djerassi, and Wildacres; performance residencies at Ella Fiskum Danz (Norway), Les Sages Fous (Quebec), and St. Anne’s Puppet Lab (NYC). It was supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and The Brooklyn Arts Council
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