PAST CRANKIE PROJECTS:

The Realness of Things: A crankie about my experience studying abroad in Indonesia and the curious things that happened while I was there.

For the Future: A performance involving a crankie and a Japanese form of screen puppetry called Dogugaeshi. It is a piece about living through the pandemic in which the future is put on trial in a court room and consists of the all the ponderings and connections made during the pandemic time.

Rattlesnake Creek Dam Lambe Lambe Meditations: This Lambe Lambe theater and the four puppet based meditations contained within, were written and produced as part of a residency with Montana Open A.I.R. on the former site of the Rattlesnake Creek Dam. The dam was removed in 2020, and is one of the fastest dam removal projects in the country to date. When it was removed a wild river was reunited for the first time in over 100 years. The space is now an active ecological restoration site awaiting the return of native species. 

Teatro Lambe-Lambe is a form of miniature puppet theatre created by two Black women, Denise di Santos and Ismine Silva, in Brazil in 1989. This form of street theatre is now prevalent throughout South and Central America and practiced in more than thirty countries worldwide. Performed for one person at a time, traditionally the audience member views the performance through a peephole of a camera obscura-style box resting on a table.

Circles From Lines: Circles From Lines is a “dance” crankie in which two performers become the “dowels” and a third person is the puppeteer. The three performers act as the three fates and tell a story highlighting cyclical serendipitous connections throughout history over linear time.