Segal Center to Mark 'PUPPETRY AND MATERIAL PERFORMANCE' Release with Screenings, Panel, 12/1

The Segal Center is pleased to celebrate the publication of The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance (Routledge, 2014), edited by Dassia N. Posner, Claudia Orenstein, and John Bell, with a full day of curated screenings followed by excerpted performances and a panel discussion featuring John Bell (Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut) and Claudia Orenstein (Associate Professor at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY). The event takes place on Monday, December 1, with screenings from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. followed by a 6:30 p.m. performance and conversation.

Join us for screenings highlighting the depth and breadth of contemporary puppetry in the US and abroad. Screenings curated by Tim Cusack (Artistic Director, Theatre Askew) will be shown from 10:00am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

Screenings will include:

- Compagnie Philippe Genty, France (Excerpts)
- Domestic Resurrection Circus 1985 | Bread and Puppet, Vermont
- Hermann | Theater Im Wind, Germany (Enno and Anne Podehl)
- Hunchback | Redmoon Theatre, Chicago
- Karagöz performance, Turkey
- Magic in Our Hands | Documentary on Indian Puppetry (Excerpts)
- Petrushka and Vertep | The Vagrant Booth (Alexander Gref and Larissa Sokolova), Russia
- Terror as Usual | Great Small Works, New York
- Ubu and the Truth Commission | Handspring Puppet Company, South Africa
- Un Avventura d'Orlando Furioso | Manteo Sicilian Marionettes, New York
- The Wonder of Diamond | Eko Nugroho (with Matthew Cohen), Indonesia
- and others

Join us at 6:30pm for a short performance of "Living Newspaper: Sidewalk Ballet" by John Bell and Trudi Cohen of Great Small Works, selected readings from the book, and a discussion moderated by Claudia Orenstein.

Click HERE for more information and updated screening schedules. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is located at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For more about the Segal, visit www.theSegalCenter.org.

Pictured: Maryann Colella in Bread and Puppet Theater's Things Done in a Seeing Place, Glover, Vermont (2013).
Photo by John Bell.