Basil Twist – Animating the Inanimate:
A Talk on Abstract Experiments in Puppetry and Visual Arts

Thursday March 5th, 2015
6:30 pm ‐ 7:30 pm

Mohr Visiting Artist Basil Twist will lead a discussion inspired by this outstanding collection of 20th century American Art that highlights the abstraction he has developed and created in his own works on stage

Denning Family Resource Center, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University
314 Lomita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

STANFORD UNIVERSITY HERE

DOGUGAESHI
FRANCE

Twist’s Dogugaeshi makes its French debut with two adventurous festivals.
May 5-12 & May 14-28

“Puppeteer Basil Twist loves the old-fashioned business of raising the curtain...in Dogugaeshi he takes the act to new heights.” - Washington Post

“Tantalizing…it will come to you as far as you let it in.” - The New York Times

“An artist of wild imagination and singular poetic vision, puppeteer Basil Twist creates absorbing works that connect classic stories with profound music and mesmerizing visuals."

Passages Festival HERE
La 8e édition de la Biennale internationale des Arts de la Marionnette HERE

Sisters Follies: Between Two Worlds 
(World Premiere) 
Abrons ART CENTER

OCTOBER 1 - NOVEMBER 7

An October ghost story commissioned to celebrate the 2015 Abrons’ Playhouse Centennial. Sisters’ Follies: Between Two Worlds celebrates the founders of the Playhouse, Alice and Irene Lewisohn, and stars Downtown legends and Abrons favorites, Joey Arias and Julie Atlas Muz as the sisters and enduring artistic spirits of the theater. This homegrown spooktacular presents the ultimate revival, possessed by the sisters and their legacy of avant-garde performance and dance, way, way downtown, still haunting the playhouse 100 years later.

Directed and Designed by Basil Twist, Lighting Design Poe Saegusa, Costume Design Machine Dazzle, Sound Design Akey, Projection Design Daniel Brodie, Production Stage Manager Neelam Vaswani, Thomas Wilfred "Clavilux" recreation by Joshua Light Show.

Performed by Joey Arias, Julie Atlas Muz, Kate Brehm, Jessica Scott, Ashley Winkfield, Chris De Ville, Lute Breuer, Katie Melby, Jonothon Lyons, Rachael Shane and David Ojala

For tickets and more information go HERE