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Please note: This is not the official PuppetLOVE! website.
This is Run For Your Life!’s website.
This page is about a performance that took place on April 1, 2003.
For information about upcomming PuppetLOVE festivals,
please go to the website of Wise Fool Puppet Theater.
For information about upcoming Run For Your Life! shows,
please go to our Upcoming Shows page.

Tickets: Performances $12-20, Workshops $15-$40
Information and Reservations (415) 905-5958
More information at
http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/PL2003.htm

(Please come to all the other wonderful PuppetLOVE! events)

Moonlight, sweet perfume on the breeze, the passionate strains of a waltz, and sheer idiocy. Soaring flights (literally) of ecstasy, unparalleled technical virtuosity, and pratfalls.

“Anybody can dance” is a maxim of the modern dance world.  This ballet proves that any body can dance.
Petite prima ballerina assoluta Marianne Humainette and diminutive danseur noble George “Stumpy” Spelvin interpret Nocturne in A-Flat Major from Les Sillyphides, a homage to the classical romantic ballet, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Chuck Jones, Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine, Tex Avery, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Wile E. Coyote.

Marianne and George also performed the first two weekends of April at the College of Marin.

In their short careers, George “Stumpy” Spelvin and Marianne Humainette have triumphed in many roles befitting their stature.  Marianne was guest artist in Dance of the Tumblers for City Summer Opera's 1999 production of the Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin musical Lady in the Dark.  George premiered the Valse in C# Minor from Les Sillyphides.  George achieved one step for a small man, one grand jeté for mankind, in 2001: A Space Oddity, at the Dance-Along Nutcracker in 2000. As well as being regular cast members of Run For Your Life!...it's a dance company!, they have been guest artists with Peninsula Ballet Theater. Maybe one day they will choreograph and perform Mozart's Les Petits Riens.

PERFORMANCE • SOMARTS Theater • 934 Brannan St

Tuesday, April 1st 8pm
Fool’s Day Cabaret, Cabaret Light: Festival Favorites
Run For Your Life! It’s A Dance Company (SFO), Wise Fool (SFO), Il Teatro Calamari (PDX), Puppets and Pie (SFO), The Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab (SEA), The Teacup Side Show (SEA), Patricia Rose with One Grain of Sand Puppet Theater (LAX)

Wednesday, April 2nd 8pm
Day After Cabaret, Cabaret Dark: Sex Death & Politics
Kris Bluett Woolen (PDX), One Grain of Sand Puppet Theater (LAX), Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab (SEA), Hagen & Simone (SFO), David Morley (SFO), Cherie Panek (PDX), Wise Fool (SFO)

WORKSHOPS • Cellspace • 2050 Bryant Street

Tuesday. April 1st
12-2 Giant Puppet Basics with K.Ruby/Wise Fool
2-4 Shadow Puppetry with Christime Marie/Shadowlight Productions
1-4 Counterbalance and Trick Marionettes with David Morley

Wednesday, April 2nd
12-2 Suitcase Shows with Beth Peterson/One Grain of Sand
2-4 Animate the Inanimate with Tim Giugni/Il Teatro Calamari

SPECIAL EVENT • SOMARTS Theater • 934 Brannan St

Tuesday, April 2nd around 10 pm (after the show)
FREE Puppet video show and artists’ reception Featuring video by: Tina Banda, Wendy Morton, George Higham, Niffer Desmond, Mellissa Ehrenreich, Dragon Dance Theater, Avery Janeczek, and more…

TICKETS: Performances: $12-20 Workshops: $15-40
INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS: (415) 905-5958

http://www.zeitgeist.net/wfca/PL2003.htm