La MaMa Puppet Slam 2024
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Curated by Jane Catherine Shaw
La MaMa Puppet Slam returns this year with new short works of genius! These condensed works of puppetry are original, compelling, brilliant, witty, tragic, funny, stunning, startling, ironic, exotic, political, lyrical, musical, beautiful, intellectual, experimental, wild...and always demonstrate genius in a matter of minutes!
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Line Up:
This Is Not A Theatre Company: Ripe Time (A Still Life)
Mariana Garcia Tinoco, and Ursula Tinoco : La Llorona, A Mexican Folklore Tale
Basically Good Puppet Theatre: Snow Lion
William PK Carter: My Loves, My Hopes, My Joys
Crooked Square Puppetry: The American Theater is Alive and Well
Annabel Heacock / Tide & Foam: Mr. Anderson Goes on a Walk
Leah Levine: Love Poem
Dream Eaters Collective: From the Archives of the Library of the Dreamless
Evolve: Frostilina & LeFrost
Brzezinski and Schap: Say Mama
The 11th La MaMa Puppet Festival Fall 2024 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 Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in Washington DC and the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain in New York, the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, the Québec Government Office in New York, Puppet Slam Network, Radio Drama Network, The Shubert Foundation. Additional support from Cheryl Henson is gratefully acknowledged.
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La MaMa Puppet Festival
The La MaMa Puppet Festival showcases new contemporary puppet theatre by artists from around the world. Curated by Denise Greber, focusing on diversifying the voices, stories, and perspectives shared onstage, with the goal of uplifting marginalized identities within the puppet community.