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Productions currently featured for touring include:
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Symphonie Fantastique A one-of-a-kind under-water marvel set to Hector Berlioz's 19th Century classical composition of the same name. The hour-long Symphonie is performed entirely in a specially constructed tank. The puppeteers manipulate feathers, glitter, plastics, vinyl, mirrors, slides, dyes, blacklight, overhead projections, air bubbles and latex fishing lures to deliver a concert of forms, shapes and moving colors.
“True magic...it is like listening to music with your eyes.”
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La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco With a nod to the original opera written in 1922, Twist designs and directs a cast of over 50 life size marionettes, 12 puppeteers and seven principal singers who interact magically on the storybook-like stage.
“By far the most widely adored and unquestionably magical production at this year's Spoleto Festival...a grand and giddy delight.”
Original Opera written by Ottorino Respighi
Production license available by arrangement with the Spoleto Festival USA and Lincoln Center Festival |
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Dogugaeshi An intimate experience influenced by the rarefied tradition of Japanese dogugaeshi stage technique and Twist's own encounters with the remaining caretakers of this once popular art form. Dogugaeshi is a mesmerizing and powerful voyage through historical and contemporary Japan, a journey through abstract images and emotions.
“Intimate and spectacular, a haunting abstract piece about lost traditions.”
Live shamisen music and sound created and performed by Yumiko Tanaka |
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Petrushka A Stravinsky ballet that combines Czech and Japanese puppetry traditions in a tour de force of non-traditional technique. Russian identical twin pianists perform a specially created two-piano version of this masterpiece. The program opens with an abstract fantasia of puppetry set to Stravinsky's Sonata for Two Pianos.
“Brilliantly imagined, wonderfully expressive, and breathtakingly realized.”
Performed by the Elkina Sisters |
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Master Peter's Puppet Show (El Retablo de Maese Pedro) A re-creation of the 1922 opera based on an incident from Cervantes'Don Quixote, this is a large scale show of shifting realities. Created for performance with orchestra, Quixote's rescue of a puppet maiden is told through the interplay of fluid scenery and Bunraku-style puppets.
“If anyone can save this almost forgotten puppet opera from the shadows, it's the puppeteer Basil Twist.”
Composed by Manuel de Falla |