This workshop, for up to 15 participants (ages 16 and up) will focus on creating an intricately cut paper panel. We will then create shadows and movement from the cut panels, using our unique lighting techniques. Bring in a specific image you would like to turn into cut paper for shadow please make sure the image is 8” x 10” or larger.

Shadow Workshop – $60 until Sat, July 22 after that $75, student/senior $50

Between Light & Shadow: Objects and Evidence

Opening Reception- Saturday, June 24, 4-7pm

The exhibition runs from June 24- July 30, 2023

This rare Cave Dogs exhibition features an installation of objects and unique lighting effects which will utilize props, artifacts, costumes, and video from our current performance Liquid States and past performances, including Sure-Minded Uncertainties, Archaeology of a Storm, Ferrous City, How to Build a Raft, and Emily’s Circus.

 

Performance at the Orpheum starts @ 2:30

A Q&A with Cave Dogs will be held at Jane St. Art Center following the performance @ 4:30pm

The theater is walking distance from Jane St. Art Center. The audience is invited to come to the gallery to see the exhibition after the performance with a small reception. Cave Dogs members, Suzanne Stokes, Jim Fossett, Adam Mastropaolo, Dillon Paul, Ted Conway and Alchemy Mastropaolo, will be present for the discussion.

Cave Dogs performs Liquid States, a shadow play extraordinaire, at the Orpheum Theatre, in Saugerties, NY. Cave Dogs presents a startlingly original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd, and the downright fun that results in something infinitely compelling.

Cave Dogs current production, Liquid States, consists of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from sculptures, props, costuming and the human body, in concert with projected video imagery, spoken narrative and an original soundtrack. Liquid States explores water as substance, as a metaphorical allusion and as a subject of socio-political debate. Through the divergent lenses of micro and macro perspectives, we examine mankind’s complicated relationship to this essential natural resource.

This is a 60-minute performance. Tickets are general admission; $20 for adults, $15 for members, children (under 12) and seniors. Seating is limited, tickets can be purchased online.

This performance features an opening shadow performance by Kingston High School students whom have participated in a visual art workshop with members of Cave Dogs.

Cave Dogs presents a startling original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd and the downright fun that will result in something infinitely compelling.

Cave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians and storytellers in the spirit of creating interdisciplinary, multi-sensory performances. Experience innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast from props, costumes, puppets and the human body. Captivating shadows move in concert with projected video imagery and an original soundtrack. Multiple, richly layered visual tableaus produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early film and the humor of contemporary animation – all of which charm, challenge, and captivate adults and children alike. It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world. We teach trees to dance and whales to sing.

Through divergent lenses, the performance Liquid States explores the substance, metaphoric allusion, and socio-politics of water. Water in its many physical states, cultural circumstances and environmental perspectives is closely examined. Water means life.

This performance features an opening shadow performance by Mount Everett art students whom have participated in a visual art residency with members of Cave Dogs and a dance residency with instructors from Berkshire Pulse.

Cave Dogs presents a startling original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd and the downright fun that will result in something infinitely compelling.

Cave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians and storytellers in the spirit of creating interdisciplinary, multi-sensory performances. Experience innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast from props, costumes, puppets and the human body. Captivating shadows move in concert with projected video imagery and an original soundtrack. Multiple, richly layered visual tableaus produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early film and the humor of contemporary animation – all of which charm, challenge, and captivate adults and children alike. It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world. We teach trees to dance and whales to sing.

Through divergent lenses, the performance Liquid States explores the substance, metaphoric allusion, and socio-politics of water. Water in its many physical states, cultural circumstances and environmental perspectives is closely examined. Water means life.

Cave Dogs is delighted to have been invited to perform their new show Liquid States at the The Reykjavík Fringe Festival, in Iceland.

Cave Dogs is delighted to have been invited to perform their new show Liquid States at the The Reykjavík Fringe Festival, in Iceland.

Cave Dogs is delighted to have been invited to perform their new show Liquid States at the The Reykjavík Fringe Festival, in Iceland.

Cave Dog is pleased to collaborate with the Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni, South Africa (which is part of greater Johannesburg) from June 25th – July 6th. During this time, Cave Dogs is leading workshops with actors, dancers and musicians at Sibikwa to develop a short form performance.

Cave Dogs is delighted to have been invited to perform their new show Liquid States at the The Academy for Moderne Circus, Copenhagen, Denmark.  This event is free and open to the public.