In 2003, we produced Sticky Ballerina Legs, a fifty-minute puppetry show. The performance was created out of small sketches – scenelets – with no main storyline. It was an abstract look at life, love, creation, and everday events. The highlights of the performance, the bits everyone loved, were a sun and moon falling love, an old man and woman arguing over a shopping list, and a cat tangoing with a fish.
The performance had more than twenty puppets in it, 99.9% of them were handmade by us. We also made our set, two benches, where we could perform on, and store our puppets within. The three of us performed in the show, taking on different roles throughout. Sometimes one of us would sit and do nothing, sometimes we would be helping someone else with a puppet, but most of the time, we would have five different puppets that each of us had sole control over.
We performed this show for five nights during the 2003 Melbourne Fringe Festival, in the Meeting Room of the North Melbourne Town Hall. The show was successful, and we hoped to rework it and perform it again.
In 2005, we joined up with Spiral Productions and the Fusion Multi-Arts Festival to perform a season of selected scenes from Sticky Ballerina Legs (the scenes were mentioned above). Unfortunately, due to unforeseen problems with our venue, we had to cancel the season.
Please view the pictures of our puppets from this show and our video. We also have reviews here.
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