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Lone Wolf Tribe’s “Body Concert”

  • First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church 425 Congress Street Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)
Puppeteer Kevin Augustine from Lone Wolf Tribe lays on stage with face painted white, holding a carved foam heart and surrounded by a foam skull and floating foam eye

Inspired by Japanese Butoh dance and performed to a bittersweet electroacoustic score, this minimalistic spectacle partners exquisitely sculpted foam-rubber puppets in a wordless exploration of life’s beautiful impermanence.

Recommended for ages 11+

Oversized body limbs stripped of their skin become a hauntingly romantic moving sculpture of muscles, tendons, and bone. Achingly animated in an extremely rigorous choreography, Lone Wolf Tribe’s Kevin Augustine performs solo, bringing his puppets to unusual life with his hands, feet, and outstretched legs.

At 50 minutes, a series of dream-like vignettes elevates our shared human journey, highlighting our vulnerability and resiliency as the boundaries of puppetry itself are expanded. Performed without a text and accented with heartbreaking hints of nature, BODY CONCERT poetically resonates: we are alive with life all around us.

  • Musical Composition: Mark Bruckner

  • Lighting Design: Ayumu Poe Saegusa

  • Masks & Moldmaking: Gloria Sun

  • Technical Wizard & Set Design: Ilya Vett

  • Puppets/Direction/Performance: Kevin Augustine

A co-production with Canadian company Les Sages Fous, BODY CONCERT was developed at artist colonies Yaddo, Djerassi, and Wildacres; performance residencies at Ella Fiskum Danz (Norway), Les Sages Fous (Quebec), and St. Anne’s Puppet Lab (NYC). It was supported by The Jim Henson Foundation, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and The Brooklyn Arts Council

Learn more about Lone Wolf Tribe

SLIDING SCALE POLICY

No one will be turned away for lack of funds; contact MSA at 207-879-4629 or pip@mayostreetarts.org for information on our sliding scale admission policy.

COVID-19 POLICY

Audience members, staff, and volunteers will be asked to mask while not actively eating, or drinking.

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CANCELATION POLICY

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