Using fragile materials, our hero begins to construct and reconstruct shelter as she attempts to find security. Odds are against our hero, but don’t tell her that.

Created by Lake Simons & Matt Acheson
Music by John Dyer

Lake Simons is a theatre artist based in New York City with strong ties to Fort Worth, Texas. She is a director, designer, choreographer, puppeteer, builder, painter, and performer.  Lake has collaborated with many distinguished artists creating theatre productions from the ground up. She makes theatre that utilizes puppetry, movement, and live music. But most importantly she relies on make-believe.Her creations have been performed in New York City, Fort Worth, Boston, Chicago, and Edinburgh, Scotland. Lake has received multiple Jim Henson Foundation Grants in support of her original work. She has participated in various artist residency programs including: Here Artist Residency Program (HARP), The Freight, Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program (SUITE), and the Puppet Lab at St Ann’s. Lake is a 2018 artist-in-residence with Dixon Place.

Experimental puppet choreography devised over the course of an afternoon with puppeteers Chris Green, Pepper Fajans, and Rowan Magee and captured in a video with original music by C. Green.

Created and composed by Chris Green
Performed with puppeteers Pepper Fajans & Rowan Magee

Chris Green is a Brooklyn-based designer, performer, and director.  His theatrical and installation works have been presented over the past 20 years in venues including Lincoln Center, NY City Center, National Geographic Museum, La Jolla Playhouse, Teatro del Lago (Chile), and BAM Harvey among others. Recent project: ‘Hagoromo’ featuring NYC ballet legends Wendy Whelan and Jock Soto with choreography by David Neumann.  Current:  New material-based music project ‘American Weather’ to premiere at HERE, NYC in 2018.

Rowan Magee is a puppeteer, director and educator from Troy, NY. He has performed for Phantom Limb Company, Dan Hurlin, David Neumann, Chris Green, Robin Frohardt, and Spencer Lott. Rowan is a co-curator for the Object Movement Festival at the West Park Presbyterian Church. rowanmagee@gmail.com

Pepper Fajans is the Founding Director of Brooklyn Studios for Dance (BkSD) and the Brooklyn Touring Outfit.  The premiere work of the Touring Outft, Co. Venture received a choreography award at the Montreal Fringe and was presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center in 2016. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, and Culturebot.

Sandwiched between two World Wars, Florine and her sisters, Carrie (dollhouse maker) and Ettie (writer), managed a privileged, artistic life defined by cultural salons for eccentric characters while the lives of many were filled with suffering. Focusing specifically on Florine, the shy and sophisticated personality who loved Nijinsky and Marcel Duchamp and worked with Gertrude Stein, her paintings serve as snapshots of their time couched in highly editorial artifice. This performance brings to life the contrast between these simultaneously existing worlds in a live dreamlike painting with truthful and metaphorical commentary by parrot and blooming flower puppets.

Video projections by Cory Antiel

Patti Bradshaw was artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Studios for Dance where she premiered K and the Way. She has shown work at New Dance Alliance, Roulette, Harkness Dance Festival, was a member of St. Ann’s Puppet Lab, and is a recipient of a Project Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.

Made possible in part with funds from the Jim Henson Foundation.