artist in residency at MAK gallery

developing BROOM DANCE, a shadow song for thresholds

in concert FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17TH 7PM

MAK GALLERY, 191 KING ST. E GANANOQUE

$20-$40 admission at the door, kids free

The many natures of Baba Yaga

Broom Dance backstage

Department of Illumination’s 10th annual Lantern Festival in Picton, Ontario. Photo by Alex Filipe @alexfilipe.photo

Baba Yaga’s house

Photos courtesy of Nicolas Aubrey @zoomstudiomontlaurier

Alison Gowan plays hurdy gurdy for Woman Who Holds Up the Winter Sky

Birdbone Theatre has been selected to work as artist in residency at MAK Gallery, at Startup House studios in Gananoque. We are developing our shadow puppet show, Broom Dance. Our residency culminates in a performance February 17th at MAK Gallery, and we are joined by Chanter La Pomme: Jan LeClair on accordion and Alison Gowan on hurdy-gurdy performing European traditional and neo-trad dance music. Put on your dancing shoes and join us for a night of spectacle!

Broom Dance is a shadow puppet show for winter and winter witches, a shadow song for the threshold, for the liminal lace between light and dark, between house and the howling wild. A luminous bow of song and cut paper to wild dark and to winter night. We are currently developing this show, the first bones of it played at the Department of Illumination’s Firelight Lantern Festival, Picton 2022.

This artist residency program is run and curated by MAK Gallery, in partnership with Startup House. One thousand garlands of gratitude to their art-loving, generous visions.