December is very full

Oh my, i may have overbooked myself this month! so get your calendar and find out when you can come to see me!

Occupy Broadway:
I'm performing the new PUFF on stilts!
Friday Dec 2nd, 6 p.m.
Times Square

Voice for Vision Puppet Gallery:
My Caterpillar from Dark Space and my biggest Poof! will be on display.
http://www.voice4vision.org/
Dec 8th - 18th, 2011
Theater for the New City

Striptease
I'm performing some massive hands for a great director, Lily Whitsitt
Dec 10th - 14th, 8:30 P.M.
As part of the Drama League's DirectorFest
at Here Arts Center
http://dramaleague.org/events/directorfest-2011

Whoa Wednesdays
This will be the first viewing of my new physical theater act, Things Fall Apart
Wed. December 14th at 8:00
Triskellion Arts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojcTUGEbrI

Punch Kamikaze Xmas Carol
I don't know yet which part i'm doing, but what does it matter? its kamikaze, man!!
Wednesday December 21st at 7:00
Jimmy's 43 pub
http://jimmysno43.com/

The GAP

ok. i missed a big gap of time in this log of my movements. And that is because I spent this past summer/ fall training super intensively with my mentor, Kari Margolis, at her training center upstate. August 1st - October 21st I trained 5 hours a day, 5 days a week in the margolis method of physical acting. And it felt GOOD!

I have been studying the method for many years, but this year I wanted to really focus my energies on that practice. I am happy to say the experience was expansive for me as a performer. After that intensive period i feel myself poised to create greatness in my own performance projects. Additionally, i spent a lot of time and energy drawing connections between this cohesive physical theater training and exercises I will use to train actors and puppeteers in the manipulation of objects, puppets, props, costumes, and scenery. Ask me to consult with your theater company and I'll share my excitement and expand your vision of movement onstage.

Sonnambula

I'll be puppeteering in Michael Bodel's puppet-dance version of the opera SONNAMBULA. We open at Here Arts Center Nov 10 and run until Nov 19. Ooh so beautiful! INFO HERE

Ferocious Beasts on video

I've finallly uploaded some clips from the Lost Circus Party in July.

Thanks to Rebecca Arndt for the video and Aimee Germane and Miguel Suero for Poofing! VIDEO here: Poof Playlist

Hand Dance Video

It was a pleasure to design and perform puppets and scenery for this dirty crew of musical misfits and their video production team. Beware of double entendres in HAND DANCE by Liquid Diet and Gravity Sleeps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6EYU-hgn4A

Sea of Bees

I am proud to report I appear as "The Double" in this beautiful music video by Sea of Bees, Stephan Littger, and Gravity Sleeps. Rock on. http://vimeo.com/26635217

Whitebird 2011

And my summer gig as Visual Director of Creative Theatrics summer camp in Prospect Park was a whirlwind of creativity by all the artists involved. I especially enjoyed building a 7 foot tall pop-up book opera house, a gianttorch from which a phoenix puppet rose, a 4 foot diameter Mayan calendar (in relief), a comic book forest, and a starscape that transforms into a projection screen or teleporter. (i guess i also really liked the 4-headed dog puppet, the full-body hand costumes, the sarcophagus costumes, and the fire maze!) Thanks Whitebird!

La Divina Caricatura

It was so fast I didn't even have a chance to post the info before we performed it! I really enjoyed performing as the feet of the dog with an utterly fabulous cast of puppeteers, singers, actors, and musicians directed by the one and only Lee Breuer in a workshop performance of La Divina Caricatura at PS122 on August 1st, 2011

video from earlier this year (before i was involved):

http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/project/la_divina_caricatura

Ferocious Beasts

The ferocious POOF beasts will be perform en cage

at The Lost Circus this Saturday

The Lost Circus (circus meets dark cabaret with a steampunk twist):
Official New York City fundraiser for the Burning Man Temple

Sat, July 16, Irondale Center, 85 S Oxford St, Fort Greene, BK
7-9:30pm VIP donor reception & silent auction, $40-200
9:30pm-4am party, $20 / $10 after 2am, 21+

Details & RSVP: http://www.geminiandscorpi​o.com/events.html

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=222502454434930

WHoa Wednesdays

Whoa Wednesdays

Wednesday, July 13 I'm performing at this Variety Show, which is the perfect weekly pit-stop of a spectacle. Ticket $7 Drinks Suggested Donation of $4 Door at 8, Show at 8:15 Triskelion Arts 118 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=239628609400138

HAMLET in puppet form

I'm performing at the Punch puppet slam Kamikaze Shakespeare evening.

Wednesday May 25th at 7:30

at The Tank at 354 W 45th st NYC

$12 at the door

here is the Facebook invite...

I'm speaking on a panel!

I'm speaking on a Panel for the Festival of Ideas for the New City

at DIxon Place on SUNDAY, MAY 8 AT 3:00PM

it's about art as re-purposed and recycled, ART RE-ANIMATED

Tickets: FREE

Moderated by Ralph Lewis (Peculiar Works Project) with panelists Jenny Romaine (Great Small Works), Kate Brehm (puppeteer), Harriet Taub (NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs'Materials for the Arts), musician and Circuit Bender Craig Flanagin and installation and video artist Diane Dwyer.

RSVP to tim@dixonplace.org or just show up!

Fireside Chat Wednesday May 18th 6p.m. FREE

The next Fireside Chat will be at Dixon Place on Wednesday May 18th at 6 p.m.

Chats are always FREE. This time I am talking about the End of the World with Christopher Williams and Patti Bradshaw. Please join us.

Poof Appearances 4-30

Poofs

will appear this Saturday, April 30th

at

the opening ceremony of the new Clockworks theater.

starting at 7:30 p.m. at 196 Columbia Street Brooklyn

see the facebook invite

then they will appear at the

Gravity Sleeps Salon at

F A C T O R Y Studios

79 Lorimer Street (btwn Union and Marcy)

Brooklyn, NY

around 11 p.m.

see the facebook invite

Fireside Chat Friday April 22nd 6pm

Do come by Dixon Place on Friday April 22nd at 6 p.m. for the next installment of Fireside Puppet Chats, where we invite puppet artists to talk about things OTHER than puppetry. Kate Brehm will host a discussion about USELESSNESS with Julian Crouch and Sxip Shirey. Do come!! It's FREE.

Friday April 22nd at 6pm FREE

Dixon Place, http://dixonplace.org

161A Chrystie St. (between Rivington & Delancey)

Petrushka in Philly

I'm performing the head of the ballerina in Basil Twist's Petrushka in Philadelphia this weekend and next at the Annenberg Fine Arts Center. www.pennpresents.org

Postdramatic!!

The Puppetry and Postdramatic Puppetry Conference at UCONN last weekend was LOVELY! All the usual suspects, with great scholarship, and a plethora of puppets. Thank you John Bell and Bart Roccoberton. I delivered a lecture on Using Cinematic Techniques in Live Puppetry (a break-down of Cinema 1 by Deleuze and clips from my new show, The Eye Which We Do Not Have) and performed a Poof at the cabaret.

http://puppetconference.uconn.edu/home.html

"Eye" showing on Wed Feb 23rd at 7:30pm

The Eye Which We Do Not Have

is

performing as a work in progress

at Dixon Plance’s Puppet Blok

on WED. FEB. 23rd at 7:30 p.m. $12

161A Chrystie Street Btwn Rivington & Delancey

http://www.dixonplace.org/