Lubberland National Dance Company
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.
For more information, please contact:
Maura Gahan
753 Heights Rd
Glover VT
05839
lubberland@riseup.net
(802)525-3031
