Throughout 2012, CDA’s Artistic Director Michel Moyse collaborated with the Sandglass Theater in Putney to create video components for a new full-length theater piece, D- Generation: An Exaltation of Larks. D-Generation is a world-acclaimed show, involving sophisticated puppetry, video, and live performance. It follows a group of nursing home patients …
A segment of the Elwood video, part of the Sandlglass Puppet Theater project D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks, a full-length theater piece based on stories written by groups of people with late-stage dementia.
A segment of the Henry video, part of the Sandglass Puppet Theater project D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks, a full-length theater piece based on stories written by groups of people with late-stage dementia.
An excerpt from a video segment Michel Moyse created for D-Generation, a Sandglass Puppet Theater performance work exploring dementia. This excerpt is adapted from Michel’s personal experiences with his mother, who suffered from dementia for many years before passing away last year.
The Boston Globe’s story “Puppets tell story of dementia in D-Generation” highlights the process for developing the stories, the show, and ultimately, the transformative effects it had on the show’s participants and creators. Sandglass Theater began working “D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks” in 2008. The show premiered in 2012. Read …
The Brattleboro Reformer calls Elwood ‘outgoing and mischievous…an old guy who’s personality matches the bulldog on his sweatshirt”. The articles goes on to describe some of Elwood’s other charming characteristics, and it’s hard to believe he is talking about a puppet. And that’s the point. The realism of the characters, …
…these astonishing creatures… which are in reality our doubles, our secret brothers, sprung from a shadow within us…one learns more…than from the many laborious works on the human condition that are proposed to us by philosophers, psychoanalysts and psychologists. —Dernieres Nouvelles D’Alsace, Strasbourg, France …ascends the absolute heights of theater… …
Sandglass Puppet Theater’s Kickstarter campaign for D-Generation: An Exaltation of Larks was successfully funded by over 150 supporters in April 2012! Kickstarter Campaign Video