dream music puppetry program
The Dream Music Puppetry Program supports the production of new puppet works in New York City. The Dorothy B Williams theater at Here Arts Center is the physical center of Dream Music. Dream Music is currently supporting the development and production of SONNAMBULA by Michael Bodel; EPYLLION by Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith & Emma Jaster: Aeolian Theater; and DON CRISTOBAL, BILLY-CLUB MAN by Erin Orr ERIN ORR & Rima Fand.

Culturemart, HERE`s annual festival featuring work by resident artists, runs from January 11 - 31, 2010. Tickets and info HERE


SONNAMBULA / MICHAEL BODEL
January 12-13, 2010   buy tickets

Bellini's pastoral opera, La Sonnambula is peeled back to reveal the experience of young Amina on the day before her wedding, surrounded by her village but lost in her own mind. A sleepwalker, Amina exists in the space between sleeping and wakimg, vibrant and lifeless. Visceral choreography of two dancers converges with puppetry on multiple scales. Amina's world decomposes. Soprano Mme. Giuditta Pasta, is brought to life, moments before she steps onto the stage of La Scala, 1831.


EPYLLION / LINDSAY ABROMAITIS-SMITH & EMMA JASTER, AEOLIAN THEATER
January 26-27, 2010   buy tickets

Carnal and spiritual collide and entwine through the dawning of the first day and the moonshine of the first night. Inspired by the fantastical imagery of Magical Realist painter Remedios Varo and the poetry of Rumi, Aeolian Theatre presents a new creation myth told through puppetry, dance, ritual and song. Born of a collective wrestling to find the story that belongs to all of us, we offer a world that seeps in through the senses, flooding our hearts, inviting performers and audience alike to peel back some of the many layers around our hopes, sorrows, fears, and secret delights to reawaken the purity of our primitive selves.


DON CRISTOBAL, BILLY-CLUB MAN / ERIN ORR & RIMA FAND
January 26-27, 2010   buy tickets

For centuries, the puppet Don Cristóbal has charmed audiences with his drunken, lusty, billy-club wielding antics. But does he secretly struggle with his role as the Billy-Club Man and long for love and escape? Through experimental puppetry, clowning and live music, Don Cristóbal, Billy-Club Man explores the violent appetites of Cristóbal's on-stage persona and follows him off-stage to reveal his poetic possibilities. Inspired by the puppet plays of Federico Garcia Lorca, the piece features shadow, hand and large figurative puppetry by Erin Orr and evocative original music by Rima Fand.