Come and join our spooky WIP showing 🎃👻!
FREE ADDMISSION
Sunday, October 22, 2023 - 5PM
558 St Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238
An evening of work-in-progress presentation of Shinnai Meets Puppetry: The Peony Lantern, the second chapter of the ongoing project to introduce shinnai-bushi tradition (song-storytelling from Japan accompanied by shamisen music) with visual accompaniment of puppetry creation.
The Peony Lantern is a shinnai-bushi adaptation by Master Okamoto Bunya (1895-1996) of a famous fantastical ghost love story, depicting the sorrow of a woman-in-love facing an unfaithful lover. This presentation is to share the outcome of the week-long residency at FiveMyles, a collaboration between lead puppeteer/designer Emma Wiseman, puppeteer/designer Rowan Magee, and artist/song-storyteller Okamoto Miya (a.k.a. Nekaa Lab, Sachiyo Takahashi), experimenting with light and shadow in search of new vocabularies of shadow puppetry. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session, sharing the cultural and artistic connotations of the designs of the work.
Shinnai Meets Puppetry: The Peony Lantern (WIP) is made possible by generous support from Brooklyn Arts Council’s individual donors who contributed to the Brooklyn Empower Fund.
