Lubberland National Dance Company « Bread and Puppet: Cheap Art and Political Theater in Vermont

Lubberland National Dance Company

*Glover VT

7 pm, Friday, 25 March

In the Ballroom at Bread & Puppet Theater

753 Heights Road ( Rte. 122 @ 1 mile east of Rte. 16)

Glover, VT

Man of Flesh & Cardboard

(Pfc. Manning & Truth)

As everybody knows puppetshows are strictly for amusement or irreverent funmaking. But ever so often puppetshows have to deal with subjectmatter that is either hidden from public view or got distorted on its way to the public.

This show is dedicated to the courageous soldier Bradley Manning, who revealed the truth, where the truth didn’t want to be revealed & now suffers the consequences for it.

The show is in 2 parts.

Part 1: Modern Sky is based on classified Defense Department recordings which document a helicopter massacre of civilians in Baghdad. Life-size, black + white cardboard cut-out puppets & live original music & sound.

Part 2: Manning is about the 23-year old soldier who is accused of leaking this & other secret documents of atrocities to Wikileaks & about his incarceration & solitary confinement in the brig in Virginia. A cardboard demonstration & dance of various forms of deprevation & cruelty, ending in a hopeful thought of the soldier himself.

Admission by donation

For more information please call 802-525-3031.

COME SEE

THE LUBBERLAND NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY

every Friday night

July 1st- August 26th

in the Paper Mache Cathedral

Donations accepted

———————————————————————-

JOIN THE LUBBERLAND NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY

on FRIDAY’s

2 PM – REHEARSAL

8 PM – SHOW

———————————————————————

Brief Background on Lubberland Dance

Why a Lubberland Dance Company?

In the 1960s Peter Schumann, Bread & Puppet’s founder, moved from Germany to New York to work with Merce Cunningham’s modern dance troupe. Schumann was both a choreographer and a sculptor with an interest in reviving the avant-garde and folkloric arts that diminished after the Second World War. The merging of these forms laid the foundations for the Bread & Puppet Theater, whose puppets can be considered “choreographed sculpture” steeped in a tradition of experimental rusticism. After over 40 years of being known for his puppetry, Schumann has returned to his roots by forming The Lubberland National Dance Company with a mixed group of dancers and non-dancers. So far the Lubberland Dances have been seen in Vermont, up and down the East Coast (Montreal to Key West), as far west as Western Kentucky, and as far east as Taiwan. This spring’s tour will bring more people to see—and to perform as—Lubberland Dancers in cities and towns around North America.

The Lubberland National Dance Company is an itinerant dance company that specializes in problem solving dances, victory dances for victories and collateral damage dances for victims. The repertory also includes wedding dances for normally hostile populations and their rulers, national funeral dances in response to the most recent wars of Lubberland and total peace and harmony dances with no meaning whatsoever.