Tin Lightning
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Conceived and composed by Chris Green. Directed and performed by Chris Green, Lisa Gonzales, and Erin Orr. An original dance/puppet piece about human fragility and humanity’s bittersweet love affair with both important and disposable objects, and our relationship with shelter. The piece will feature a variety of puppet styles including shadow puppetry, hand puppets, and object theater. The work re-imagines simple objects – a blooming flower, a collapsible house, an exploding airplane, an umbrella – so that they become iconic performative objects. In blurring the distinction between performance styles the three performers move effortlessly between the roles of puppeteers, actors and dancers. The piece uses minimal text and an original musical score by Chris Green. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Chris Green began his puppet work in Austin, Texas after co-founding the Kambing Na Isang Pa- a Shadow Play Theater in 1996. He has contributed original works of experimental puppet theater to festivals in Tulsa, Portland, Austink Chicago, new York, India and Taiwan. He has also worked with the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia and Bred and Puppet Theater in Vermont. Since moving to New York in 2000, has performed with Basil Twist, Christpher Williams, Lake Simons, Erin Orr, Matt and Deana Acheson, Dan Hurlin, and Amy Trumpeter. His original work has been seen at the Arts at St. Ann’s Puppet Lab (Bed Case) and at Here Arts Center (Lyubo). Tin Lighting premiered at the Human and Puppet Carnavio Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Currently, he is designing and building life-size animal puppets and kinetic sculptures for Noah’s Ark, a permanent exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, opening in June 2007. Lisa Gonzales is a dance maker, improviser, performer, and teacher. She received a A from Middlebury College and an MFA from OHIO State University before moving to New York City. She has shown her work throughout the United States and will be traveled to Yaroslavo, Russia this summer with The Architects, a dance company she founded with three fellow Middlebbury College alums. She has recently worked with artists KJ Holmes, Amy Chavasse, Angie Hauser, Deborah Hay, Paul Matteson, Susan Sgorbati, Andrea Olsen, Penny Campbell, Chris Green, Matthew Acheson, and Deana Acheson among others. She is currently working with choreographer Peter Schmitz, writing about dance, organizing the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation and is an artist in residence at Columbia College Chicago. Erin Orr is a professional puppeteer and storyteller with a background
in experimental theater and dance. She designs, builds, directs and
sometimes performs her own puppet shows, which have incorporated shadow
puppetry, marionettes, rod and Bunraku style puppets, animation and
toy theater. She is currently working with composer Rima Fand on a puppet
opera exploring Federico Garcia Lorca’s interest in the Spanish punch,
Don Cristobal. Other recent work includes a musical puppet circus for
all ages with the composer Baby Dee based on the real life drama of
honeybees and “Savage Nursery”, a full length, dark fairytale for adult
audiences set to live, original music by Sxip Shirey and Rima Fand.
Erin has had the pleasure of performing as a puppeteer for Basil Twist,
Christopher Williams and Lone Wolf Tribe. She also collaborates frequently
with Lake Simons both in New York and at the Hip Pocket Theater in Texas
and also with Chris Green on shows and cultural exchanges that have
taken her to Bulgaria and Taiwan. She is also currently working with
The Skirball Cultural Center in LA, adapting folktales to create a narrative
structure for a new gallery dedicated to universal flood myths.
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