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May/June 2007 BEHIND THE LID June 3- June 28th
"Rather like the great experiment that was avant-garde theater in New York for the second half of the 20th century.
"Behind the Lid" is an evocation not only of Ms. Nagrin but also of an entire theatrical subculture that now
has only a flickering existence." Ben Brantley, The New York Times
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A new work created by playwright/performer Lee Nagrin and puppeteer/performer Basil Twist. Exploring the unique realm of dreams, "Behind The Lid" breaks away from traditional staging techniques; spaces expand, open, reveal, while an intimate audience of 18 people will itself travel through this hand made world. "Behind the Lid" is the story of an older woman in her 70's who is looking back on her life through a dream; within the dream of the performance, the real memories and real dreams of this woman are revealed through the confluence of text, puppetry, music and light. As the audience takes a journey through this woman's life, they will form their own dream, as they experience layer upon layer of her memories, of her life. The woman's life and dreams, as the play reveals, is Lee Nagrin's, the prime creator of the text. Twist creates the puppetry, and performs alongside Nagrin. | 
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Performance dates at The Silver Whale Gallery, May 29-June 24, 2007. see www.leenagrin.com Sign up on the e-mail list to receive future information about this world premiere. |
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August 2007 Symphonie Fantastique Buenos Aires, South America A one-of-a-kind experience, combining the magic of puppetry with the powerful suggestions of music, dance and abstract art. Symphonie Fantastque is an intimate show set to the five movements of Hector Berlioz's 19th century classical composition of the same name. The hour-long Symphonie is performed entirely in a specially constructed water tank. Unseen, puppeteers manipulate feathers, glitter, plastics, vinyl, mirrors, slides, dyes, blacklight, overhead projections, air bubbles, latex fishing lures to deliver a concert of forms, shapes and moving colors.
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For further information please visit Pablo Neruda Stage www.paseolaplaza.com.ar |
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September 2007 DOGUGAESHI "Intimate and spectacular, a haunting abstract piece about lost traditions" - The New York Sun Revived at The Japan Society to open their 100th Anniversary Season. Twist unfolds an intimate, abstract, contemporary journey of images and emotions influenced by the rarefied tradition of Japanese dogugaeshi stage mechanism technique and his own encounters with the remaining rural caretakers of this once popular art form. This hour-long performance features original shamisen compositions created and performed live by authorized master musician Yumiko Tanaka. The multidisciplinary production blends Twist's signature puppetry with video projection design by Peter Flaherty, Lighting design by Andrew Hill and sound design by Greg Duffin. |
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For further information and tickets go to www.japansociety.org |
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October 2007 34th Annual Village Halloween Parade Jefferson Market Library Spider Twist carries on a thirty-year tradition of puppetry manipulated from homes and buildings along the Parade route. For the 11th year, he manipulates his striking giant spider during the Parade from the dramatic Italianate Gothic Clock tower of the Jefferson Market Library. Each year as the winds of October howl, Twist walks the beloved arachnid, spanning ten feet, through the streets of the west village, up the 149 stairs of this New York landmark to it's perch in the tower. This puppet is a visual treat for those participating in the Parade as well as those lined near the Library who can witness it's annual appearance. |
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For complete 2007 Parade info go to
www.halloween-nyc.com. |
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November 2007 HANSEL AND GRETEL Making his Atlanta Opera debut Twist will direct and design the production, which premiered at the Houston Grand Opera, in the new Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The production will also mark debut of internationally acclaimed Yoel Levi conducting the full arrangement. This collaboration between singers and puppets tells one of the most famous fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers. A completely original star is born through an ambitious collaboration with The Jim Henson Company "Twist has outdone even himself with a femme fatale Witch, a 12-foot swivel-hipped diva in flaming red directly from the grandest of operas." -Opera Today Performances November 10, 13, 16 & 18, 2007 |
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For further information and tickets go to www.atlantaopera.org |
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November 18/December 15 DOGUGAESHI Twist unfolds an intimate, abstract, contemporary journey of images and emotions influenced by the rarefied tradition of Japanese dogugaeshi stage mechanism technique and his own encounters with the remaining rural caretakers of this once popular art form. This tour of Japan to Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kyoto, Tokushima and Osaka represents a culmination of Twist's quest to share his completed Dogugaeshi with the people of Japan, especially in Shikoku where he was most inspired by antique decaying screens and the tales of men and women who remembered the dogugaeshi (or fusuama karakuri) from their youth. Venues include the Kanazawa Museum of 21st Century Art. "A gorgeous..cavorting..dance...it will come to you as far as you let it in" - The New York Times
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See the full schedule in Japanese or in English |
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