Tales From The Odyssey
With a colorful cast of characters and deft sleight-of-hand, puppeteer/poet Patrick Wadden brings to life Homer’s ancient epic of Odysseus and his trouble-fraught journey home from the Trojan War.
Hook, Line & Sinker
Hook line and sinker is Arm Of The Sea’s newest production that tells the tale of fishing in the Hudson River.
The Rejuvenary River Circus
This CIRCUS is an allegorical tale featuring gorgeous masks and puppet characters, a bio-morphic set design and live original music.
Turtle Island Medicine Show
TURTLE ISLAND MEDICINE SHOW is a contemporary fable and cautionary tale inspired by the Lenape Indian origin story, and by current climate reports. The show features whimsical kinetic sculptures, richly painted paper mache masks and puppet figures that range from 12" to the 16 foot tall Tree of Life. Composer & music director Dean Jones' inventive [...]
City That Drinks The Mountain Sky: Part Two
Heralded as one of the wonders of the world, New York City’s ingenious system of aqueducts and reservoirs provides clear mountain water from the Catskills to nine million downstate residents.
Into The Light
INTO THE LIGHT is a dance/theater collaboration by The Vanaver Caravan and Arm-of-the-Sea Theater. It features the Caravan's dancers and musicians and Arm-of-the-Sea's signature masks and puppet figures in the coming-of-age story about a young girl named Lucia. Lucia is radiant summer of her youth, beloved by her village and the animals of the forest. But as [...]
Jaguar from The Water Tree
Mutual Strangers: Henry Hudson & the River that Discovered Him
MUTUAL STRANGERS: HENRY HUDSON & THE RIVER THAT DISCOVERED HIM September, 1609: A small ship sent from Europe to find a northern route to the Orient sails 150 miles up a river on the "unknown" North American continent. The events that transpire on that voyage -- the encounters of European sailors and indigenous people, and [...]
Teme Gwitet with his pet crow from Mutual Strangers, photo by Elijah Vanaver
Lenape canoes from Mutual Stranger, photo by Elijah Vanaver
