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True pioneers at the art of acrobatic stilt dancing, The Carpetbag Brigade masters a unique theatrical language in the delicate overlap of theater, dance and circus. Rising with beauty, falling with grace and conjuring ephemeral magic with the movement and action of their powerful bodies. Balancing intensely raw and precarious physical expression with sublime dramatic imagery, a Carpetbag Brigade performance fosters a sense of psychic intimacy, poetic dialogue, and mythic imagery indoors or outdoors and excels in a full spectrum of venues. |
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By synthesizing acrobatic stilt dancing, butoh dance, contact improvisation, musical composition, contemporary dance and physical theater The Carpetbag Brigade has pioneered a unique aesthetic approach and corresponding technique that has resulted in 10 original performances and tours to Europe, Latin America, Canada and the U.S. The company has performed for over 300,000 people worldwide and creates evening length stilt performances set to original music, built around a poetic storyline and dramatic scaffold making the work accessible cross culturally.
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Mission Statement |
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The Carpetbag Brigade is an integrative cultural force with a mission to present the performing arts in a diverse array of venues and environments; and increase the quality, scope, and impact of live performance culture through performance training, community outreach, and aesthetic presentation. Our work provides a platform for people of different cultural backgrounds to share, create, express, and reflect on common experiences. By utilizing performing arts and its pedagogy as a tool to transcend language, class, and environmental background we aspire to evolve the role of performance culture and ensemble practice as a fundamental aspect of a healthy society.
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The Carpetbag Brigade has present work to many diverse venues including:
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Ford Theater Hollywood, USA
Hoopa Indian Reservation, USA InFringIng Dance Festival, Canada The Lincoln Center, USA Dell Arte’s Mad River Edgefest, USA San Francisco International Arts Festival, USA Santa Lucia Festival, Mexico Yerba Buena Gardens, USA Ko Fest, Amherst, USA Dieppe Circus Festival, Moncton, Canada At.tension Festival, Germany Universal Forum of the Cultures, Mexico |
Sommerwerft Festival, Germany
Burning Man Festival, USA Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland Merchant City Festival, Scotland Bright Lights, Miami Beach, USA The New Orleans Fringe Festival, USA Ana Desetnica Festival, Slovenia Sacred Music Festival, USA El Airo Puro, Bogota Colombia Iberoamericano Festival, Colombia Mirabilia Festival, Italy Stockton International Riverside Festival, UK |
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