SF Fringe | Paper Wings
In September I’ll be working for my 11th San Francisco Fringe Festival, serving as the technical assistant for Paper Wings, a beautiful and intricate show in which the artist Sha Sha Higby’s sculptures come to life in a combination of puppetry, dance, and art (highly recommended: click over to her website to see amazing photographs).
From the official show description:
More intricate than lace, or more fragile than a thread of a spiders silk in sunlight, whimsical as the ornaments in music boxes and fancy clocks: artist Sha Sha Higby’s sculptures are complex and layered, informed by her experiences in Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and India. Yet more than mere visual delights, these sculptures are made to move with her living body as the driving force. Meticulously crafted over the course of years, her sculptural costumes use paper, wood, leaves, silk, lacquer, ceramics, and gold leaf to make creatures somewhere between the natural and the divine.
If you’re local to San Francisco, you should make the Fringe Festival part of your tradition, too. Tickets are affordable, there are dozens of shows on offer, and if you volunteer, you can even take in shows for free.
