Below: Images from the St. Ann's Warehouse Labapalooza performance on June 28th, 2010. Puppeteers Mary Notari and Jon Riddleberger (overhead projections), Dominique Baron-Bonarjee as Gala and actor Sime Viduka as Dalí. Pictures by Richard Termine. Below: Images from the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Slam performance on December 13th, 2009. Puppeteers Dave Shih as the Father, Ora Fruchter as the swan and actor Sime Viduka as Dalí.Pictures by Richard Termine.
July, 2010:After an incredible run at St. Ann's in June (see pictures to the right), Serra Hirsch was invited to present some of the The Dalí Project's props and puppets, as well as one of her toy theaters, "My Neighbor's House," at the Mikhail Zakin Gallery in Demarest, NJ.
The works will be on display at the gallery from July 26th to September 8th, 2010. as part of the "Contemporary Puppet Exhibition."
Full details of the exhibition, as well as directions and hours of operations, are available here.
June, 2010:It's official! The Dalí Project is in
Program B of the St. Ann's PuppetLab (mini festival of new puppet
theater). Shows will be Thu Jun 24 @ 8pm, Sat Jun 26 @ 8pm, Sun Jun 27
4pm - get your tickets NOW as this event sells out fast! Click here for tickets and more information on the Labapalooza page.
May 30th, 2010: Puppet Junction's Serra Hirsch presents another toy theater in the Great Small Works' Temporary Toy Theater Museum exhibit. The piece is the third toy theater from her "Peep Show" series, entitled "The Neighbor's House." The exhibit is FREE at St. Ann's Warehouse for the duration of the festival, from May 30th to June 13th. May 16th, 2010: Puppet Junction performs a new piece, "My Special Neighbor," at the fifth annual Hastings-on-the-Hudson Popcorn and Puppet Festival at the MacEachron Waterfront Park.
December 13th, 2009: Excerpts of our work in progress, The Dalí Project, were performed in NYC at the "Puppet Art Attacks!" puppet slam in the Voice4Vision Puppetry Festival at Theater for the New City . We had an amazing response and thank everyone who came out. Images by Richard Termine to the right.
November 13th, 2009: Puppet Junction gives Dixon Place audiences a sneak peek of their work-in-progress, a full scale puppet play about the artist Salvador Dalí, currently entitled The Dalí Project. See some of our latest images to the right.
October 30, 2009: Puppet Junction's Serra Hirsch appeared on the Today Show's Halloween show and won the Best Costume Award for her latest costume, the Damsel in Distress Tied to Train Tracks. You can see a clip here.