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When are we separate and when are we joined? How and when does Matter itself speak to us, or listening, respond to our voices?

In "Sudden Orpheus" Ariel Goldberger and Leonard Schwartz explore the frontier between poetry and puppetry, drawing from vocabularies that include the myth of Orpheus, the sculptures of Giacommetti, and Schwartz's own poems, for which Ariel Goldberger has constructed original puppets, quotidian and underworld at once.

A man drinks his memories away inside Orpheus' head in NAKeD PUPPeTS show HADeS.

A man drinks his memories away inside Orpheus' head in NAKeD PUPPeTS show HADeS.

Working with audio, projections, poetry, and most of all puppetry, this performance asks us to feel our way into the being of things suspended in their own finitude and love. A new kind of puppet show, a new sort of poetry reading...

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Poet LEONARD SCHWARTZ is contributing works that form the core of the soundscape for the show, and are combined with experimental and electronic music composed by Ariel.

For this piece, Ariel Goldberger is contributing puppets in a variety of techniques, including rod-puppets, shadow projections, shadow puppets, and direct-manipulation table-top puppets based on a technique inspired by German puppeteer Enno Podehl (who Ariel had the delight of meeting recently in Germany). Through these puppets, small masks, and projections, he brings to life the poetic, haunting, and strange imagery of SUDDeN ORPHeUS.