La MaMa Kids Online: Fritzi’s Flea Circus

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April 23

Run Time: 20 Minutes

Thursday at 4PM (EST)

FOR ALL AGES!

Join the mighty Fritzi, a tiny flea with a big personality, as he dazzles audiences with his talents as strongman, tightrope walker, and even get’s fired from a cannon. Imaginative puppetry and entertainment originally created by Sandglass’ Co-Founder, Ines Zeller Bass, now performed by her daughter, Shoshana Bass.

 

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"Timed for after school viewing!"

Special thanks to The Jim Henson Foundation for supporting our online puppetry programming.

Please support La MaMa as we create radical ways to connect you
with online happenings and audience engagement in this time of isolation.

About the Artists

Sandglass Theater is a renowned theater company specializing in combining puppets with music, actors, and visual imagery. Since 1982, the company’s productions have toured internationally in nearly 30 countries, performing in theaters, festivals and cultural institutions and winning numerous international prizes.
Sandglass Theater produces works for both adult audiences and young audiences—two repertoires that tour separately and together. Sandglass also performs and teaches in its own 60-seat renovated barn theater in Putney, Vermont. Sandglass Theater is available for workshops and residencies and teaches a 2-week intensive training program each summer. Find out more info at https://sandglasstheater.org/shows/current/punschi

About La MaMa Kids Online

La MaMa Kids Online presents weekly kids performances and hands-on workshops online, timed especially for “after school” viewing! La MaMa will continue to use emerging technologies to create a new venue for artistic expression that questions how art can function and how we as a society can survive challenging periods of history.
Fun for the whole family! STORYTELLING, MUSIC-MAKING, PUPPET CRAFT, MASK-MAKING, AND MORE! La MaMa Kids is a series of creative workshops and performances for the young and the young at heart. Master artists from LaMaMa teach theatre crafts in workshops that encourage imaginative play and hands-on learning. Children and adults learn the basics of storytelling, dance, mask and puppet-making, and more! Held monthly, La MaMa Kids is fun for the whole family!