Lone Wolf Tribe

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"Those in search of theater with the capacity to move the hearts and minds of an audience...should head to Dixon Place before Hobo Grunt Cycle departs."

—Martin Denton, NYTHEATERNOW.COM

ONLY 2 SHOWS LEFT Tickets are selling quickly! Get tickets here! Friday, 3/14 Saturday, 3/15 All performances start at 7pm.

$12 for all veterans, students and seniors on all other nights

$10 for groups of 10 or more enter code HoboGruntTen $16 advance purchase (general admission— regular price is $20 at the door)

Plus, Dixon Place is offering 10 FREE TICKETS for VETERANS!

Reserve yours today by email: [email protected] or phone: [phone].

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Get tickets for Hobo Grunt Cycle!!!

shows start at 7pm on Fri, 3/7, Sat, 3/8, Fri, 3/1 & Sat, 3/15

Dixon Place

161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington & Delancey)

New York, NY 10002

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HOBO GRUNT CYCLE: Meet The Cast and Last Rehearsal!!!

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The God Projekt: TEASER #1

Lone Wolf Tribe is pulling out all the stops for the WORLD PREMIERE of its latest production, THE GOD PROJEKT: Check out our first Teaser trailer for this daring, darkly humorous show that fearlessly explores the mysteries of the universe ;)

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Puppet Sculpting Workshop - March 23rd

Lone Wolf Tribe is happy to announce the next Puppet Sculpting Workshop on Saturday, March 23rd in our studio in Brooklyn. It's from 2 to 5:30 p.m. and all materials are included. At the end of the workshop you'll have a real working puppet head of your very own!

Our workshops are an engaging and fun way to discover the universal art of puppetry and learn the specialized techniques of one of New York City’s most unique puppeteers. From the novice and uninitiated to the advanced performer, curiosity and a willingness to learn are the only criteria. Our workshops make a great gift for a friend or family member, as well as a memorable afternoon date for friends and couples.

You can sculpt your every own puppet from a photo or just your imagination. Tap into your creative potential and learn to sculpt your very own puppet! Limitless character possibilities await you in our fun hands-on session.

Limited space is available, so sign up today!  Registration is $65 (materials included). Sign up a friend and receive 1/3 off your registration fee! Pay by credit card for 1 person: or

Get a discount for two people (you and a friend)

For any other info, email: [email protected] or call 718-398-3701

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Confessed by: blackravenclaw

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Me and Jane Henson (Jim Henson's widow) at the Henson Carriage house on Friday. So excited that she attended the workshop for my upcoming show "The God Projekt". Thank you so much!

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Beeker and The Scream

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Peter Jackson and producers of the “Meet the Feebles” with puppets from the movie, 15 February 1989

Evening Post staff photographer

(from left) Cameron Chittick (designer), Fran Walsh (scriptwriter), Peter Jackson (director and co-producer) and Jim Booth (co-producer)

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Neil’s Puppet Dreams - Neil Patrick Harris’ new youtube show featuring himself and puppets from the Henson studios.

I’m not really sure what to think about this.

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Working on one of Lone Wolf Tribe's puppet exhibition components for Reanimator.

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Lone Wolf Tribe's Holiday Gift Giving

I'm very excited to announce Lone Wolf Tribe's first ever gift-giving campaign. This is your chance to support LWT's amazing work, at no additional expense, by redirecting some of your gift budget to our new online store.

Visit our store here

You can purchase hand-made cards, to give to friends and family who support the arts and puppetry. There are also buttons, certificates to upcoming Puppet Sculpting Workshops and even original artwork from Creative Director Kevin Augustine!

Feel free to reblog and recommend this to your friends and family.

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#animal and #gonzo ! 😁 #themuppets

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Avenue Q - “The Internet is for…” (by BradfordTheatres)

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Amen

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The Bread and Puppet Museum has absolutely nothing to do with bread and everything to do with creepy, traumatizing puppets. Like the nightmarish kind. Now located in a 150-year-old barn in Glover, Vermont, this giant mask and puppet collection originally breathed its first breath in New York City during the 1960s. German immigrant Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater toured college campuses across the country with politically charged shows before retiring to this quiet town near the Canadian border. Retirement isn’t the right word as this theater is still very much active, check out these pics from a recent show (really like the part where they chop off Bernie Madoff’s head). The vast contents of the museum were created communally by Peter and his puppeteers, who applied layers of paper-mache over sculpted clay models, then used rummaged materials to create life-size figures. Today you can still watch puppets being created in the museum’s front yard next to a Quebec-style clay oven where Schumann bakes sourdough rye bread, which is free to all visitors. OKAY! That’s where the “bread” part of the name comes from. The dude likes his carbs. Unlike other museums, Schumann’s purpose is not to preserve, but let his deformed, German expressionist puppets gracefully decay. Even though the place just closed for the season, I suggest to visit it as soon as you can before it’s too late. Or if you don’t like creepy things, then stay far, far away. 

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Thinking Puppets

This video highlights this idea about the puppeteer and the puppet being as one thought. This idea of that connection between the puppet’s mind and the puppeteers’ mind so that each knows the other’s train of thought.

One interesting rehearsal score the do is placing one thought or idea with the puppeteers and seeing how that effects the puppets movement. They change and add thoughts to determine how the movement develops. They use positive and negative ideas to work the puppeteers through the puppets.

Some of the puppeteers an director were actually saying the thoughts out loud. Seemed that it being voiced helped the movement become more alive. The more people who channel that thought the easier the movement became to portray. It seemed important that each puppeteer was on the same trail of thought as each other and not just each one being connected to the puppet with their own trail of thoughts.

They start discussing their relationship with each other as puppeteers, explaining that some are natural leaders and some natural followers. A puppeteer may ‘propose’ something silently and the other will be lead by the proposer to follow through with this movement. But as they delve deeper into this understanding of proposals, it changes when more puppeteers enter the movement. As each body part that is being puppeteered can offer a different set of proposals within the movement. This development of proposals mixing together can offer an interesting sequence.

I think that it’s important to always ask yourself, when performing with your puppet, ‘would i be able to answer the question What is he thinking right now?’ The connection between your thoughts and the puppets is so vital. If you are not in tune with your puppet the performance or movement will not be relatable or authentic i feel. It’s that idea of thinking through, for and with a puppet.

They describe the body as thinking all the time. your feet may think, your hands your face etc. Within the puppeteers puppetry they can use this to discover and portray a more truer human being then an ordinary actor may do. With each body part being puppeteered differently with their own separate objective you get this conclusion of ‘body of thought.’ This kind of puppetry may highlight the multi brains in our bodies and our nature of thought.