A shadow puppet puppet fable of transformation, based on Chinese folklore, with new music composed by Christopher Vu.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
Veronica Barron 