Art-in-Motion puppet project comes to life in September
07/29/10It seems strange to assign a neighborhood a gender -- male, female, neither, both?
But that’s one of the first questions Open Hand Theater’s Geoff Navias asks participants as they begin to conceptualize the puppet that will personify their community in a downtown performance in September.
Navias, Syracuse Stage’s Lauren Unbekant and Imagining American director and sculptor Jan Cohen-Cruz are serving as lead personnel to bring the three groups together as the force behind Art-in-Motion, a collaborative experiment that will stage its inaugural city-wide ‘Spectacular’ on the lawn of the MOST on Sept. 11...