Dates and LocationsJULY 12 (5:30pm) = Sliding Jail Park, Jerome AZ
Featuring: Carpetbag Brigade, Chase Archer, Meg & Thatcher, TBD Puppets JULY 13 (5:30pm) = Old Town Basketball court, Cottonwood AZ Featuring: Carpetbag Brigade, Chase Archer, Meg & Thatcher, TBD Puppets JULY 14 (6pm) = Posse Grounds, Sedona AZ Featuring: Carpetbag Brigade, Chase Archer, Meg & Thatcher, TBD Puppets JULY 20 (6pm) = Music on the Green, Civic Center, Prescott Valley AZ. Featuring: Carpetbag Brigade and participants from the Prescott Valley Department of Parks & Recreation summer program JULY 21 (4:30pm) = Courthouse Plaza, Prescott AZ. (Opens with Bend Hot Yoga Class). Featuring: Carpetbag Brigade, Chase Archer, Meg & Thatcher, TBD Puppets |
ROVING WAVE FESTIVALThe Roving Wave Festival is a traveling festival, suitable for all-ages, that brings free live performance culture to five different cities and towns in Yavapai County.
Bring your lawn chair to Jerome, Cottonwood, Sedona, Prescott Valley, and Prescott this summer to enjoy world class free outdoor performance. The festival features the acrobatic stilt dancing of The Carpetbag Brigade performing their new work “Flotsam & Jetsam”. The Festival also presents a mix of outdoor performance styles with guest artists: Driven by a passion for story and service Chase Archer has been connecting with audiences through juggling, flow arts and new circus theater for over a decade. Chase will present two mesmerizing self-devised creations. Meg & Thatcher’s “OK Apocalypse” aims to dress the wounds, set the bones, cool the fever and bring down the swelling of our collective trauma in the very midst of turmoil through story, song, poetry, movement and connection. The TBD Show Puppets comically satirize current living conditions poking fun at the follies of humanity. There will also be additional spoken word poets and dancers sharing the stage. In Prescott Valley the Carpetbag Brigade will include participants from the Prescott Valley Department of Parks & Recreation summer program as part of their performance at the Music on the Green summer concert series before Scandalous Hands performs. In the Prescott version of the Roving Wave Festival on July 21st Samantha Beasley of Bend Hot Yoga will present a free warm-up yoga class for festival goers starting at 4:30 pm to get in the mood and the event will conclude with a dance party. About Carpetbag Brigade: 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.
After starting their work in conjunction with the Tsunami on the Square festival Carpetbag Brigade toured three repertory performances for two decades and before returning to Yavapai County shortly before the pandemic. The Roving Wave festival is the renewal of their unique performance work and its interface with the local community. |