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.
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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.