On October 1st at Rhizome DC, select members of the New-York centered but diasporic puppet show collective "We Wiggle Dolls” will perform a new adult-aimed puppet cabaret set!

We Wiggle Dolls (ig:@wewiggledolls) is a diasporic puppet show collective spun out of a popular Brooklyn Puppet Slam. Since October 2023, We Wiggle Dolls has produced 10 puppet slams, a 6-day festival, immersive experiences, long form productions, a light and shadow rock music spectacle, three national tours, and has published several puppet-themed zines! We Wiggle Dolls’ mission is to bring as wide a variety of puppetry as possible to audiences, to showcase new talent alongside seasoned veterans, and to make historical puppet culture more readily accessible as well.

CAST:
naughty little no good (ig:@naughtylittlenogood)
YELLOWLEMONSHAPEDROCK (@yellowlemonshapedrock)
Community Garden Puppets (@_tashhi_)

Peter Redgrave and Khristian Weeks are celebrating 10 YEARS of performances together. In this collaboration, movement, sound, lighting, and the space itself are used as materials. Their pieces are constructed with highly adaptable and improvisational scores. Character and dialogue become elements to construct and enact purposeless task-oriented spectacles.

Peter Redgrave is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He is interested in limits, interruption, narrative, and what it is to be human. His current work involves physical exploration and presentation of the body as a tool for collective memory - a theater of movement. Khristian Weeks is a parent, artist, musician, educator, and caregiver. He has a degree in Theoretical studies and composition from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has been performing and presenting his work as well as spending his days playing with very young children since the late 1980’s. It is Weeks’s intention in all of his work to provide a sensory rich environment and experience for those in his care. He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.

Georgia Beatty is a songwriter and fiddler, focused on cycle, lineage, and healing through cultural transmission. Her first full-length album, Apprentice to Transformation, (self-released Oct 2022) is a collection of original and traditional fiddle tunes devoted to the practice of witnessing Death as a moment in cycle, rather than the end. Georgia's study as a fiddler is in Norwegian traditional music. She's had the honour of performing and teaching at Dartmouth College, dusty punk clubs, the Zlante Uste Goldenfest, and elementary school classrooms. Her work is based in one of the great wisdoms that joy is what we feel when we are in connection with other living beings. The stories told in Georgia's music come from a faith that our liberation will be embodied and communal.