The Blue Bird
Character work developed through Cloudgaze Productions, an immersive ensembles supported by Eggtooth Productions staging theatrical performances around Western Massachusetts. Recent works include, but are not limited to:
Elegy
Excerpts from an evolving fairytale made up of dance and pantomime sequences in which a blue bird sings a song of mourning and a red fox watches.
Created by Rebecca Schrader in collaboration with Kat Adler
Music by Sam Perry
Filmed by Tom Adams on Earth Day 2023 in the Blue Room at Cityspace Easthampton
A Happening II
Shea Theater Arts Center, Turners Falls, MA
October 21,22 2022
Cloudgaze directs and produces an immersive arts festival, a series of dream-like installations woven throughout the building featuring a market place with local vendors, live music, dance, theater, sculpture, painting, and film. The lines between witness and participant are disrupted and dissolved as audience members are invited to choose their own adventure and participate in the creation of the story as it happens around them.
Made possible by support from Eggtooth Productions, The Community Foundation of Western MA, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cohn and Company Real Estate, and The Source Noho
With special thanks to Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists Program
Cinematography by Lee Green
Cloudgaze Parade!
Z, the Bluebird, and the Bard parade through the Pumpkin Festival in Turners Falls, MA. Filmed by Lee Green October 22, 2022
Play Incubation Collective Salons
Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, MA June 29 2022
The Big Red Frame at Orchard Hill Park Oct 1 2022
Cloudgazers perform 10 min plays for family friendly audiences.
Green River Festival
Greenfield, MA June 2022
Work-in-progress-format 3-day durational performance in which Cloudgazers turn their campsite {Elsewhere} into a stage, march in a parade, put on a puppet show, and while the Builder constructs a mysterious eight ft tall concrete pod, Z makes a throne for the Magpie, and the Weaver makes a giant metal loom.
