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on January 4
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
backed a project
New Baudelaire In a Box Album by Chris Schoen
Songs from Theater Oobleck's Serial Cantastoria Project "Baudelaire in a Box."
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100% funded $5,023 pledged
- 101 backers
- Funded Jan 24, 2012
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on June 24, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
backed a project
New York International Fringe Festival or Bust! by Shawn Reddy
A working stiff, a grad student and a stay-at-home dad hope to defy the odds and take their show on the road with your help!
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110% funded $2,760 pledged
- 55 backers
- Funded Aug 01, 2010
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on May 13, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #17Photos from Week Three
Post CommentHey Everyone
Omigod it's all done! It was a really great three weekends with lots of new shows and different approaches to the cantastoria form. Here is a link to fotos from the last weekend which featured Marsian, Susan Simpson, Beth Nixon, Meredith Miller and the Shoddy Puppet Co.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25248731@N06/sets/72157624040933156/If you have not received your donor gifts please let me know (hello@davebuchen.com). There are some of you whom we still don't have an address.
Thanks again, and we hope to do this all again someday. The exhibition is all boxed up together and ready to be shown in the next town.
Thanks,
DavePS Oh! And here's a sample of the improvised cantastorias with Jenny Magnus and Chris Schoen spinning a tale from a scroll by Tim Portlock
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on May 8, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #16Photos from Week Two
Post CommentHey All
Here are the photos taken by Kristin Basta from Theater Oobleck's three nights of improvised cantastorias.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25248731@N06/sets/72157623867088839/Our third weekend opened tonight with a big mix of styles.
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on April 30, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #15Swag on the way!
Post CommentHi All,
I finally got down to the post office with all of your books, posters and novelty items today. They will arrive shortly.
And now I am back home from the first night of weekend two of improvised cantastorias with a glass of wine and chocolate cake to celebrate.
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on April 27, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #14Weekend One Photos
Post CommentHey All
Here is a link to the photos taken by Kristin Basta, whom we were able to pay to document the fest thanks to your contributions. The shows were all a lot of fun to do and we had nice sized crowds.
Thanks much
Dave and Clarehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/25248731@N06/sets/72157623814864113/
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on April 2, 2010Funded!
Banners & Cranks - first ever festival and exhibition of cantastoria in North America by Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
A festival and an exhibition of Cantastoria this April in Chicago, and an accompanying hand printed catalogue as work of art and reference source.
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144% funded $4,328 pledged
- 50 backers
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on February 25, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #13Some More Work You'll See In The Exhibition
Post CommentFleeced: You Reap What You Sow
Soozin Hirschmugl
Minneapolis, MNThis Cranky was created as a preview for the 2008 Barebones Halloween Pageant, a condensed version of the story of Jason and and Argonauts as told by the Golden Fleece. It was created in the context of many world-shaping events: the Russian/Georgian pipeline intervention, the American presidential election and the wall street crash, all of which informed the production process. The work was performed by a bagpipe playing ram, the ram and hydra’s speeches were adapted from Bridget Pegeen Kelly’s poem “Song”.
Soozin Hirschmugl is a puppeteer, visual artist, and spectacle/pageant director. As a staff artist and company member she has worked with In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater, in Minneapolis Minnesota and The Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont. She is a founding member of Barebones Productions, creators of the Annual Barebones Halloween Pageant and Pyrotechnic Show, and Chicks on Sticks, an all women’s stilting troupe in Minneapolis.HYDRA: I am so tired all the time. I am too tired from holding up all these heads.
RAM: Wake up. They are coming for me.
HYDRA: I will be here watching you. What do you think I do all day? What do you think I do all night?
RAM: At first you will guard me and Jason will not know what to do. But Jason will have help from Medea who will get you to sleep. They will hang my bleeding body, take my fleece They will do it at night, while everyone sleeps, while you sleep and the Congress sleeps. -
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on February 12, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #12Some More Work You'll See In The Exhibition
Post CommentLa Terribile vicenda di Anselmo Forgiali
(The Terrible story of Anselmo Foriali)
Diamiano Giambelli/Teatro del Corvo
Milano, ItalyThis text is a betrayal, murder and punishment story very typical of the repertoire of traditional Italian cantastoria of 19th and early 20th centuries, that often took inspiration from real events. This song comes from the area of the Sieve Valley, in the province of Florence.
The banner was painted taking inspiration from the traditional old cantastoria banners, that were carried along by singers and players from village to village.
The story was a part of a wider show, all about cantastoria, that Teatro del Corvo staged in august 2008 in collaboration with Suonatori della Leggera, a group of traditional musicians from Tuscany. The show was performed in the “Cianto viol” traditional music festival of Sampeyre in the occitaine Alps of northwest Italy, and included, along with the music of Suonatori della Leggera, giant puppets, cut-out puppets, dances and stilting. The performers were a group of people of all ages in the community who built all the puppets and rehearsed with the musicians during a two-week workshop. All of the scenes were based on cantastoria songs, some traditional and some written by Suonatori della Leggera.Co’ una lunga e affilata coltella/With a long and sharpened knife
a quel bimbo il suo collo li taglia/the head of the child she cuts away
quella misera testa poi scaglia/then she throws the poor remains
nella stanza in un angolo lá/in a corner of the room
Quando sta pe’ tornare nel letto/Just as she is going back to bed
che l’amante la sta ad aspettare/where her lover is waiting for her
alla porta lei sente bussare/at the door she hears knocking
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on February 12, 2010
Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Posted project update #11Some More Work You'll See In The Exhibition
Espaço e Idéias (Space & Ideas)
Morgan Fitzpatrick
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe images in "space & ideas" revolve around the ailments and needs of four elements in the human body: eye, ear, head and foot. Two characters perform an everyday ritual—eye exam, ear cleaning, haircut or shoeshine—while a third recites a list of maladies endured by that particular body part. Remedies appear as black-and-white blockprints, followed by parallel situations from Brazil and the United States that demonstrate people yearning to reclaim their physical and ideological environment. Inspiring words from Gandhi make an appearance, and the fragmented black-and-white world unifies into a colorful image. Philly-based puppeteer Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews created "space & ideas," along with four other short pieces, for a U.S. tour with Frederico Freitas from São Paulo. The tour, called Terra E Teto (Land and Roof), raised funds and awareness for the MTST (Roofless Workers Movement, the urban wing of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement), visiting 26 locations across 12 states in three weeks. Jan Burger, Rafter T. Sassafras and Alison Tubini Miner did some driving and performing along the way.
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Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
Chicago, IL
Dave Buchen is a performer, writer and printer. He has been a member of Chicago's Theater Oobleck for over twenty years. His cantastorias include a song cycle based on Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Charles Baudelaire's poems about wine and The Ballad... view more
These images are beautiful. I love seeing the new work! Thanks.