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MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Spring 2010 Lecture Series
The Theatrical. The Performative. The Transformative.

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Monday, March 8 at 7:00 PM
"Bread and Puppet Theater"
Peter Schumann
Bartos Theater
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann, legendary founder of Bread and Puppet Theater will present a short “fiddle lecture“ illustrated with cantastoria banners. Moderator John Bell, long-time collaborator of Bread and Puppet Theater, will discuss with Schumann the theater‘s use of public space, technology, the concept of progress, and the relations between puppet theater and modernism. The evening will end with a drum and fiddle performance.

Peter Schumann
Peter Schumann studied and practiced sculpture and dance in Germany. He moved to the USA in 1961 and founded Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City in 1963. The company worked to address political issues through hand and rod puppet shows and giant puppet parades. Schumann and moved to Vermont with Bread and Puppet Theater in 1970, where he continues to build puppets, create shows and giant outdoor spectacles and perform locally and internationally, and to bake bread, grow garlic and split firewood.

John Bell
The lecture is moderated by John Bell, an ACT Program Artist in Residence, puppeteer, scholar, teacher, and former performer with Bread and Puppet Theater for over a dozen years.

Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
(see directions below).
Free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://theatricalfields.mit.edu/
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229