BLOSSOM at Dixon Place Begins 9/9

Dixon Place (Ellie Covan, Founder & Artistic Director) is proud to present the new commission Blossom, created and directed by award-winning puppeteer and Jim Henson resident artist Spencer Lott. He has also designed the puppets for the show and is the recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation's 2016 production grant.

In Blossom, five puppeteers visualize the delicate unraveling of an elderly painter's mind. The show creates a rich visual work in which puppetry, projections, crisp lighting and cinematic sound design converge to blur the lines between reality and memory.

The puppeteers include: Robert Stevenson, Jamie Agnello, Rowan Magee, Nicholas Lehane and Sam Jay Gold.

Blossom will play six performances only: September 9th, September 10th, September 16th, September 17th, September 23rd and September 24th at 7:30pm at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street).

Tickets are $19 in advance, $22 at the door, $15 students / seniors / ID NYC and can be purchased by visiting www.dixonplace.org or by calling (866)-811-4111. The show will run approximately 70 minutes. Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey), in Manhattan's Lower East Side (By subway: B/D to Grand, F to 2nd Ave, J/Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring St, M to Essex St).

The Dixon Place Lounge is open before and after the show. Proceeds from the bar directly support Dixon Place's artists and mission.

Spencer Lott is a puppeteer, actor, writer and director. Recently, he performed in Trusty Sidekick Theater Company's Up and Away at Lincoln Center, for which he also was the puppet director and designer. Additional performances with Trusty Sidekick include The 7½ Mysteries of Toulouse McClane and The Haunting of Ichabod Crane at the Park Avenue Armory. As a puppeteer he has performed and as one of the assistant puppeteers on "Sesame Street" as well as "America's Got Talent," and "Good Morning America." Spencer also co-wrote and directed the short puppet film, Melvin the Birder (2014 Audience Award for Best Oregon Short, 2014 PDN Photo Annual Award), for Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams, which screened at BAM in the 2014 Puppets on Film Festival. He has been a works in progress artist at the Children's Museum of the Arts, a guest artist for Theater Development Fund's Stage Door program, and is a member of the teaching artist ensemble at BAM and the New Victory Theater.

This Dixon Place commission is made possible with public funds from NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo & the NY State Legislature, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and private funds from The Jim Henson Foundation, & The Jerome Foundation.

An artistic incubator since 1986, Dixon Place is a Bessie and Obie Award-winning non-profit institution committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance, music, puppetry, circus arts, literature and visual art at all stages of development. Presenting over 1000 creators a year, this local haven inspires and encourages diverse artists of all stripes and callings to take risks, generate new ideas and consummate new practices.

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