about Poof the Band!

Over the last 8 years, the nondescript, slightly confounding Poof puppets (designed by Kate Brehm) have appeared across many genres and contexts: as public and gallery art, immersive installations, party favors, theater, caged circus animals, and friends to clowns.  Never, during all that time, did the Poofs attempt to play music. In this never-before-witnessed configuration, the Poofs ‘opened’ for a real band, Sound of Ceres, for three weeks in the summer of 2017. Mixed with the urchins and bacteria from a dark and dirty bar, Poof the Band! was born.

Music written by Sxip Shirey, The Cocteau Twins, Alain Bashung, and Michel Polnaroff

KATE BREHM is a movement director who performs and devises original works of visual theater using objects and physical acting. Her New York based company, imnotlost, has been producing theater and events since 2003. She teaches performers practical and theoretical tools for performative visual thinking through her classes, Moving Objects and Performing Design. Her essay, Movement is Consciousness, is published in the Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance.  She is trained in the Margolis Method of Physical Acting. Select projects: Basil Twist – Rite of Spring, Dogugaeshi, Petrushka; imnotlost – Things Fall Apart, Discrepancies, The Eye Which We Do Not Have.