Mountains
2020, Artpark, WNY in the context of PLAY/GROUND art festival
Mountains is a performance that features a live director / puppeteer (played by me), and a cast of 10 inter-species creatures performed by volunteers with varying degrees of performing experience (ranging from none to professional). The creatures (who I refer to as the puppets) are defined by their full-head masks, made by me from paper mache. The show centers around a fictional drama featuring performers masquerading as animals and inter-species creatures, who are each an archetype (or several) of struggle. The characters were built around conversations I had with each performer about what they were currently struggling with (at the time Covid19 was only a few months old).
Mountains was performed twice back to back, a matinee and an evening show. This video is from the evening performance.
2020
mountains
In the weeks leading up to this performance, an invitation was extended to the public to make their own paper mache creature heads and perform in the Mountains Movement Choir. The following instructional videos were circulated.
