Andean myth meets an indie love story.
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If Chaska, from A Girl without Wings, was invited to perform on a variety show — it would probably look like this.
What do you think?
It’s always magical to see a puppet come to life! Check out this Jurassic Park Raptor puppet.
We are thrilled to announce that Dramatic Adventure Theatre’s upcoming production of Jason Williamson’s A Girl without Wings has been awarded a Jim Henson Foundation grant. This is incredible news for the development of this beautiful play!
[The pediatrician] threw on gloves and she pulled out a 2-inch feather and she’s like, ‘It’s a feather.’ And we’re like, ‘What do you mean it’s a feather?’
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/two-inch-feather-emerges-babys-neck-212722115—abc-news-topstories.html
Is this young girl trying to grow wings?
Dramatic Yawar festivals are designed to show the triumph of indigenous culture over colonial influence, but the number of condors injured and killed raises fears for the species’ survival
“We know there are up to 55 Yawar fiestas a year… and some condors are dying. Undoubtedly it is a threat to a species that is at a very much reduced population level,” says Rob Williams, Peru co-ordinator for the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who estimates there may be just 300-500 left in the wild in Peru. “We are on a threshold and if we push the condors much further over this threshold, it will be very difficult for them to recover.”
This festival marries colonial influences with the Andean worship of the condor – considered a messenger between earth and the heavens.
How much longer the condor and the Yawar can continue to grace the Andes looks likely to depend on whether the festival can undergo another evolution to add that most modern of ideas – conservation – to the blend of local traditions and foreign influences that already constitute the Yawar fiesta.
These make me nostalgic for corded phones. - Heidi
Telephone Sheep Sculptures by Jean Luc Recycled art
Love this recycled art, reminds me of our sheep in ‘A Girl without Wings’! ~ Jesse @ Dramatic Adventure Theatre
(Source: unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream)
Dramatic Adventure Theatre
&
Abingdon Theatre Company
present a Pop Up Playhouse performance of
A Girl without Wings
A new play by Jason Williamson
Directed by Kathleen Amshoff
ONE DAY ONLY!!!
This Saturday
November 17, 2012
@11am
Where:
Abingdon Theatre
312 West 36th Street
(between 8th and 9th, 2nd Floor)
Make a puppet!
Before and after the presentation we will be making shadow puppets in the lobby — so come early or stay after and make your very own Condor puppet!
FREE
Tickets are free, reservations recommended, donations appreciated.
Please e-mail info@dramaticadventure.com to reserve seats.
If you would like to make a donation online, go to dramaticadventure.com/support
SHOE DRIVE
At Saturday’s performance, we will also be collecting new and lightly used shoes (preferably in children’s sizes) for impoverished families in the Ecuadorian Andes. So, please take a look in your closet and under your bed to see if you have an extra pair of shoes to donate to the cause.
Cast
Elisha Lawson, Christen Madrazo, Katey Parker, Flor De Liz Perez,
Mary K. Redington, Liam Rhodes, and featuring Paul Helou on guitar!
About A Girl without Wings
Andean myth meets an indie love story in A Girl without Wings — set in a vibrant puppet world where wicked hummingbirds dart through the air, brightly colored threads of prayer reach for the gods, and a storm of shoes rain from the sky. This new play for family audiences brings to vivid life the story of a lonely Condor who falls in love with a spunky shepherd girl named Chaska.
Visit agirlwithoutwings.com to learn more.
Bring your family to experience this playful and poetic riff on a native Andean folktale!
Dramatic Adventure Theatre, The Puppet Kitchen, and a handful of designers & actors recently came together for a 3 day workshop to investigate design ideas for ‘A Girl without Wings’. This is a little video that we put together from that event.
And as I type this, the designers are meeting again to discuss the discoveries made — very exciting!
Mutual of Omaha proudly presents Wild Kingdom: Land of the Condor
This video is amazing on so many levels — grainy footage and saturated colors, vintage walkie talkies and awesome dirt bikes, featuring a man wrestling with Andean Condors (apparently for a good purpose), an unnecessary ape and hosted by an even more unnecessary guy that might be the Walt Disney of explorers. Wow.
