Veronica Barron

theater artist | puppeteer | music-maker

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15 Oct

Oct 2019: The Magic Pearl

A shadow puppet puppet fable of transformation, based on Chinese folklore, with new music composed by Christopher Vu.

25 Sep

Oct 5: All Together Now #10

All Together NowThe Burren, Somerville6pm doors // 7pm show$12 in advance // $16 at the door I’m delighted to be part of Anna Rae’s diversely curated series All Together Now,…

07 Aug

Aug 3: Rooftop improv at Studio550

Video/projection artist and dancer/choreographer Callie Chapman runs a fantastic space over at Studio550. I was tickled to be invited for an evening of improvisation—performers were drawn out of jars, so…

03 Jun

June 18 showing in Central Square Theater’s new work series

Join me at Central Square Theater, where I’ve been invited to present as part of the Nora Theater’s new works series! Rachel Wiese joins me to perform our piece Be…

05 Feb

March in Montreal: a month of creative research

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a month-long creative research residency and cross-cultural exchange! I’ll spend the month of March in Montréal, hosted by the Casteliers puppetry festival…

04 Feb

Photos: Sound Shadows

Sound Shadows is new work in progress, a collaboration between Irish dancer Rebecca McGowan, banjo player and ballad singer Julia Friend, and me on shadows & movement. These photos are…

06 Jan

Jan 12-26: CATALYSTS residency showcase at Dance Complex

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 | The Dance Complex | Cambridge, Massachusetts | More info & tickets Rebecca McGowan, Julia Friend, and I are performing a new work this month…

23 Sep

October 23-27 | Be Clean in development at Les Sages Fous festival in Quebec

Rachel Wiese and I have been invited as part of the cohort for Les Sages Fous’s Micro-Festival de Marionnettes Inachevées, or Micro-Festival of Incomplete Puppetry, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec! We’ll be further developing…

15 Jul

Aug 16-26: music-making for Opera House Arts in Maine

I’m extraordinarily excited to be heading to Deer Isle, Maine in August as Composer/Music Director for I Have Seen Horizons: Ruth Moore’s Stories from Maine. Meg Taintor, whom many Bostonians…

18 Mar

Mar 2018: Taiwan International Festival of Arts with Nufonia Must Fall

Above photo credit to our awesome videographer AJ Korkidakis; showcasing our gorgeous venue with Afiara Quartet + Kid Koala while we all wait for showtime! I went on the road…

30 Jan

Be Clean is “a thing of beauty”

A second dance number, performed by Veronica Barron and Rachel Wiese, was a mesmerizing piece featuring Barron’s “Be Clean When We Die” spiritual from her 2015 Gather ‘round the Mic…

22 Jan

Wed Jan 24: new work at IRRESISTIBLE

“A second dance number, performed by Veronica Barron and Rachel Wiese, was a mesmerizing piece featuring Barron’s “Be Clean When We Die” spiritual from her 2015 Gather ‘round the Mic…

12 Dec

Dec 2017: puppeteering Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall at Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara!

I spent a week in beautiful Guadalajara puppeteering Nufonia Must Fall at the International Film Festival there. It was amazing to perform for such lovely audiences, and to be hosted so warmly! I…

13 Oct

Oct 14 + 15: a tiny shadow dance

Rebecca McGowan, Julia Friend, and I spent a very satisfying day in Connecticut after the Ballard Institute Puppet Slam experimenting with this question: how can we use lights and shadows…

04 Sep

Sep 15: puppet slam at Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry

Friday, 8pm, Storrs Connecticut: I’ll be presenting Black is the Color, in which I am both puppeteer and singer of a plaintive traditional ballad of love longed for; and My…

04 Sep

Aug 10-13: Nufonia Must Fall in San Francisco!

Always a pleasure to be back on the road with these fine people, puppets, and robots. A little peek "backstage": Our hosts at SFJAZZ were amazing (thank you for the…

12 May

May: weekly Theater/Expressive Movement Workouts! 💃💪🎭

I’ve been thinking for awhile that I want to have a “physical theater workout” more often—an opportunity to move my body, and a reminder that I can use it creatively…

19 Apr

Apr 6-8: Nufonia Must Fall in Fort Lauderdale & Miami

So delighted to be on the road again with Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall, puppeteering in this rather magical live cinema version of a graphic novel come to life. Want…

22 Mar

Mar 16-Apr 1: Who Would Be King’s off-Broadway run!

Photo by Chris McIntosh | http://www.cmcintoshphoto.com Well, it’s been a long and clownish road—over two years ago, we started development for Jason Slavick/Liars and Believers’s Who Would Be King. In…

03 Dec

Nov. 30: dancing in A Day Without Art vigil

Top image: ©Greg Cook/WBUR (more beautiful pics here!) Last summer, I had an idea: I showed up to lead the dance troupe I co-facilitate with School of HONK in our “simple, powerfully fun”…

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