June 12, 2007
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Stage Space
Sky Fish
Illustration from
LOGOS
(May 17, 2007)From an obituary in today’s New York Times:
“Lee Nagrin, a noted Off Broadway performance artist… died Thursday in
Manhattan. She was 78….She formed her own company, the Sky Fish Ensemble, in 1979 and
presented performance-art pieces that tended to unspool like fairy
tales, filled with mysterious, archetypal imagery. Her own presence was
mysterious, too, both on and off the stage, often conjuring up the
sense of a keen-eyed, all-seeing, benign witch.She created
some of those images midperformance, as when she traced a landscape
along brown paper that ringed the stage space of Silver Whale Gallery,
where much of her work was performed.For her last piece,
‘Behind the Lid,’ she collaborated with the puppeteer Basil Twist on a
story in which a woman looks back on her life through a dream.
Performances are this month at the Silver Whale.”LEE NAGRIN AND BASIL
TWIST’SBEHIND THE LID
Tuesday – Sunday @ 8PM
June 3rd – June 28th
Silver Whale Gallery“Silver Whale Gallery
(21 Bleecker Street) proudly announces the world
premiere of BEHIND THE LID, a new play by playwright/performer
Lee Nagrin and puppeteer/performer Basil Twist
that chronicles a woman looking back on her
life through a dream; her memories expand, open
and reveal while an intimate audience of 18
will travel with her through this hand made
world. Audience members are guided by a young
familiar through this older woman’s life and
dreams. They experience layer upon layer of
the life of an American artist – Lee Nagrin.
Basil Twist creates the puppetry and performs.Tickets for BEHIND
THE LID are $40. To purchase tickets, please
call Smarttix.com at 212-868-4444 or for more
information visit www.leenagrin.com on the
Internet.”From Log24
on June 7, the date
of Nagrin’s death:“… Packaging is unavoidable.
Facts rarely, if ever,
speak for themselves.”– Matthew C. Nisbet,
Assistant Professor
of “Communication,”
June 6, 2007From the
New York Lottery
on June 7, the date
of Nagrin’s death:Another opening of
another show.
