|
About
Mud Angels Project | Director | Composer | Performers
Mud Angels Project
The Mud Angels is an evening-length figure-theater piece with an inspired musical score by Val Opielski. The piece tells the story of a book restorer working after the catastrophic flood, which occurred in Florence, Italy in 1966. The piece explores memory and loss in a very tangible way – through the destruction and miraculous restoration of the written treasures of a society. The story uses the central figure of the restorer as one of a dying breed – the kind whose painstaking labor of love is completely overlooked by others. The urgency is tangible in the race between his ability to save the books and their disintegration.
The Mud Angels is an interdisiplinary theater project which blends dance/movement with contemporary puppetry, sculptutal set design and projections.
The evening-length premiere of the piece took place on December 10-13, 2009 at The Voice 4 Vision Puppetry Festival. The festival will took place at Theater for the New City in New York. To learn more about the festival visit www.theaterforthenewcity.net/puppet.htm. Ongoing development and performances are in-progress.
Artistic Director
 Luis Tentindo
(Director/Designer) is a brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. He creates puppet/object theater works as well as exhibitions and installations based on his theater pieces. From 1994 to 2008 he danced in the companies of many of New York’s finest dance makers touring and teaching nationally and internationally. He now focuses on creating his own work and on collaborations.
In March/April of 2010 he was in residence at The MacDowell Colony. In August of 2010 Luis was awarded a 5-month studio residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. In March and April of 2011 Luis continued development of a new work at a residency at Djerassi. Currently, he is a resident fellow at the Bogliasco Foundation near Genova, Italy. Mr. Tentindo's work has received generous support from The Jim Henson Foundation and other organizations. Composer
 |
Val Opielski (Composer)
has worked extensively in the arts, both as director/creator, and collaboratively. She is a musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, installation artist, and performance artist. Her current bands are: The Walking Hellos, ps xo (both soon to release CDs), Sportsman's Paradise (a guitar army). Other puppet collaborators include: Dramaton Theater, Janie Geiser, Lost Art of Puppet, Catapult Marionette Theater, Highwire Artists. More info at www.myspace.com/valopielski. |
Performers
 |
Ariane Anthony is a New York-based dancer, choreographer, actor, director, clown and puppeteer who creates and performs original dance-theater. Her dance group, Ariane Anthony & Company, has been presented at numerous venues in New York City and nationally, as well as in Finland, France, and Belgium. She has trained extensively in mask/clown, mime, butoh, and other forms of dance. She is on the faculty of the New York Mask and Clown Workshop, www.maskandclown.com, teaches ballet and modern dance at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Construction Company since 1996. This is her second year performing with Luis Tentindo/Ministry of Objects. |
 |
Pepper Fajans works as both an independent contractor and showman. From his Mott Haven based workshop Pepper operates a creative contracting company, addressing projects in and out of theater. He looks forward to an Autumn and Winter full of puppetry. |
 |
Mary-Clare McKenna is a performer & creator of interdisciplinary performance work. She has studied, performed & collaborated with leading artist in UK & USA. She teaches internationally Skinner Releasing Technique, improvisation & composition. She is writing a book on the interdisciplinary performance artist Lee Nagrin. |
 |
Yoko Myoi, born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan, joyously resides in NYC. She devotes her time to performing arts as a central focus of her existence, appearing in productions presented in venues such as The Chocolate Factory Theater, La MaMa, HERE, and seasonal theatrical festivals in NYC. Ms. Myoi enjoys multidisciplinary work in dance, physical theater, and puppetry. In the Fringe Festival NYC 2007, Ms. Myoi showcased her piece The Monkey Moo. |
 |
Laurie O’Brien began making puppet shows in her garage in San Francisco. Her puppet show Three was performed at the New York Fringe Festival in 2004. She received her MFA in Puppetry from CalArts in 2008. In addition to her own work, she has been a puppeteer and puppet builder in Jessica’s Yu’s film The Protagonist, Janie Geiser’s performance Stolen Archives of the Vanished Ice-World and Dan Hurlin and Dan Froot’s performance of Who’s Hungry. |
|
|
