Tom Lee’s Puppet Planet
Somewhere between the earth and the stars, tradition and experimentation, La MaMa and the Met Opera, he keeps exploring his art form’s possibilities.
Somewhere between the earth and the stars, tradition and experimentation, La MaMa and the Met Opera, he keeps exploring his art form’s possibilities.
The co-founder of Mabou Mines never rested on his laurels but kept driving his work forward, on stages large and especially small.
To honor the million-plus Black Africans who died in World War I, the South African artist uses opera, theatre, dance, video, and a dose of Dada.
The protean auteur makes a kind of puppet theatre in which his own intense, mercurial presence is the central object being manipulated.