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The puppets are back.
From Sept. 11 through Sept. 20, Sandglass Theater presents its ninth international Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival: Walking to the Borders. Artists from Canada, Cuba, England, Germany, Mexico, and all around the United States will gather in Brattleboro and Putney to perform puppet shows for adults and children of all ages.
On Sept. 5 and 6, Friends of Music at Guilford (FOMAG) will presents its annual Labor Day Weekend Festival with an evening concert in the Organ Barn on Kopkind Road (off Packer Corners Road), and an afternoon orchestra concert on the lawn at the Organ Barn. The event celebrates...
Everyone these days seems glued to their smartphones. But how far would you let your smartphone lead you? That question will be posed in The Rounds, an unconventional performance experience presented by Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) as part of its upcoming Progressive Performance Festival. French artists Martin Chaput and...
Elena Skye first met American folk singer Pete Seeger when she was a small child. Her parents had been aficionados of the folk revival music during the early 1960s, and some of the first albums to which Skye listened were Seeger playing with the Weavers and Almanac Singers. Although she doesn't remember the incident, her parents insist that, at a concert, Seeger patted Skye on the head. Skye and her partner Boo Reiners, who together front the Demolition String Band,
Eric Bass, the co-founder and artistic director of Sandglass Theater, recently wrote to U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., inviting him to Vermont for the ninth Puppets in the Green Mountains Festival. Held in and around Putney and Brattleboro from Sept. 11 to 20, this festival of puppetry and unusual theater brings international artists and local community together through a variety of performances, workshops, dialogues, and other special events. “Dear Senator McCain,” Bass writes, “On behalf of Sandglass Theater, let me...
A group of young Israeli, Palestinian, and American teenagers invite the community to join them on the Brattleboro Common for an afternoon of arts and celebration on Sunday, Aug. 2, from noon until 4 p.m. Fifteen young adults from three countries who are learning leadership skills at the Jerusalem Peacebuilders (JPB) Acer Farm Camp in West Brattleboro want to share with their Vermont neighbors the music, poetry, and skits they worked on during their two-week peace camp experience. The community...
As Yellow Barn's Summer Season began its 46th season in Putney, the chamber music school and festival took a moment to look back. In a birthday concert with what Executive Director Catherine Stephan called the “octogenarians” at Yellow Barn, three veteran Yellow Barn faculty members to whom the current season is dedicated - pianists Peter Frankl and Gilbert Kalish and cellist Bonnie Hampton - joined young Yellow Barn artists for a sold-out concert celebrating the classical era of chamber music.
“Physical theater is more than what most people think when they hear the term,” says Ben Grinberg, co-founder of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. “It is not just mime or red-nose clowning.” The genre also pursues storytelling through primarily physical means which rely on motions of the performers rather than (or combined with) text to convey the story. “As we do Almanac, performers talk through hand gestures, body language, thought track [when a character speaks aloud inner thoughts], and many more...
