interpretive dancing

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Apocalypse Defiance Circus & Pageant 07/10/2022

Opening of the 2022 Summer Performance Season!

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>.

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Parking Lot Dance Co: 6 DISASTER CONFRONTATION & MITIGATION DANCES 04/01/2022

Parking Lot Dance Co. Premiere: Six Disaster Confrontation & Mitigation Dances Artwalk April 1, 2022 at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier VT
performed by
Christiana and Bella Potter, Max Fransen, Brooke Stapleton, Alexis Smith.
written & directed by
Peter Schumann
film/edit
JLipani/BZBurmeister

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>.

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Finished Waiting 03/19/2022

This video documents the March 19, 2022 performance of Finished Waiting at the Old Labor Hall in Barre, Vermont, one of its current 12-performance tour on the Eastern Seaboard, with additional credits below.

Cast:Tanja Hohne, Joshua Krugman, Erika Martinez Landaverde, Chaekyung Lee, Siena Mayers, Uriel Najera, Caitlin Ross, Elsa Saade, Denise Rogers Valenzuela

Music: Excerpts from J.S. Bach Suites for Violoncello Solo, Suite No. 2 in D-Minor BWV 1008
Lamentation by Elsa Saade
Letterpress posters printed by HiIlary Savage
Clock: Peter Hamburger
All Bedsheet Cantastoria paintings and Pillowcases by Peter Schumann

Peter Schumann's text, a featured script of this piece:

I WAIT FOR
A LONG
TIME &
WHEN I
AM FINISHED
WAITING
I GO

AND
I GO

AND
GO

THEN
I STOP

& I
SEE

For more information: breadandpuppet.org
For additional coverages of Bread and Puppet performances: jeromelipani - youtube

The Old Labor Hall show was supported by:
The Harris and Frances Block Foundation
Capital Candy
Dessureau Machines
Miles Supply Co
r.k. Miles
Spruce Mountain Granite Co
Oreste Valsangiacomo Jr

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Marionettes En Vitrine! 02/07/2022

Vital Action - Radically Illuminative Public Art *
This film documents the February 7 & 8 Unveiling Walkabout Tour of Montreal's Outremont upscale & utilitarian shops' windows in a very large-scale Bread and Puppet win: Marionettes en Vitrines! This is Bread and Puppet in collaboration with Casteliers.ca. Peter's performance of the Furious Art / L'Art Enragé Fiddle Rant underscores the Photojourney/ Parcours on foot in winter streets of Montreal tour of some 30 vitrines filled with archival photos, ironically-placed puppets, bedsheets, prints with informed performance/exhibition provenance by co-curators Alexis Smith and Pavla Mano employing photography by some 17 longtime B&P and Castiliers.ca artists and some 570 pieces spanning more than a half-century of Peter Schumann's & collaborators' creation.

The 17th Casteliers Festival of radical puppetry will be held March 2 through March 6, 2022 in Montreal. Festival performance schedule can be accessed at festival.casteliers.ca

The Castelier production team offered Schumann the extraordinary opportunity to merge activist art with daily, ordinary life in a cosmopolitan & internationalist multi-cultural city. His "EXCEPTIONALLY WONDROUSLY ORDINARY" written in blue letters on a Bedsheet surmounted by a headless Suit with dangling necktie is a deeply chilling moment of perhaps the major vitrine staged in the city. Huge windows of expressionist/archetypal figures meet the Circus zebra & comic chimera puppet as they face into a major thoroughfare with heavy car and 18-wheeler traffic.

* For more information: breadandpuppet.org and festival.casteliers.ca
-- JL

Bread and Puppet Theatre: Furious Art/ L' Art Enragé Fiddle Rant 01/26/2022

Schumann's Furious Art Fiddle Rant was created on January 26, 2022 in his studio for the 17th Festival de Casteliers Unveiling of Marionettes en Vitrines!, a Walkabout exhibition in over 30 shop windows in Montreal's Outremont featuring the works of Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet Theater. This exhibit, curated by Alexis Smith and Castelier's Pavla Mano, is the largest historical retrospective of B&P masks, calendars, prints, puppets, publications and paintings ever shown. The walkabout exhibit runs from February 7th to March 6th, 2022. This film features subtitles in French by Genevieve Yeullaz added by Denise Babin at Festival de Casteliers.
This 17th Casteliers Festival features performances by a number of international puppeteers, whose work is briefly described at the Casteliers website below. Great Small Works is one of the featured performances in March. Check the website for Info on performance schedules.
For documentation of full-length & Sideshow Bread and Puppet performances and Virtual Tours of Peter Schumann's prodigious output from 2012 through the present please check out Jerome Lipani - Youtube.
For more information: breadandpuppet.org and festival.castelliers.ca

For more information: Jerome Lipani, Independent Artist <jeromelipani@gmail.com>.