NOW PLAYING at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (1500 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN): A show called
Winter Dreams
Winter Dreams is about the ways that all the animals of Minnesota manage to sleep through the winter. See hibernating bears, turtles who hold their breath for 3 months,
snakes who bury themselves in a pit in the ground, frogs who freeze themselves cryogenically, and more! It's a kid-friendly show with some ingenious puppetry —some of which was designed by ME.
To be more specific, I took a design internship at HOBT this fall and did 3 jobs:
1. I performed image research and factual research to figure out what certain animals look like and just how their bodies work.
2. I was tasked with designing and building a shadow puppet sequence based on the
Wood Frog —The frog that can tolerate being frozen solid in the winter and resume living after it thaws itself out.
3. I was also put in charge of fleshing out a sequence that had already been started - one about bees. In a beehive, the worker bees will crowd around the queen and pulse in order to keep her warm (fun fact, the drones, who usually hang out at the hive, are sent out one by one to die during the Fall)
So I took copious WIP pictures. So without further ado, this is art in progress.
(read more for pictures!)
