Mirrored Pool
|Puppet Festival 2026
[Program tbd]
Runtime: 60 minutes
A puppetry/music collaboration between artist Tom Lee and musicians Lisa Kaplan and Matthew Duvall.
The piece explores humanity’s place in our vast universe, showcasing the virtuosity of Eighth Blackbird’s music against the vital, human power of puppetry. Mirrored Pool takes special inspiration from astronomer Carl Sagan, whose work on the Voyager spacecrafts and the Golden Record are now the most distant human-made objects and sounds from our planet — currently 15.7 billion miles away from Earth.
Credits
Created and performed by Tom Lee, Lisa Kaplan and Matthew Duvall
Puppets & masks by Jaerin Son
Additional puppet design by Averly Sheltraw
Lighting by Seojung Jang
Puppetry direction by Justin Perkins
photos by Stacey Bode Photography
an Eighth Blackbird production in association with Yara Arts Group with support from the MAP fund
The artists
The 12th La MaMa Puppet Festival Fall 2026 is made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Additional support from Cheryl Henson is gratefully acknowledged.
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