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Rumpus at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2017
In 2016 we brought Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran The Circus" to life through live music and dance. Set to Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals," the high flying story about the power of imagination had acrobatics, dance, and live brass music.
As part of the 2015 MN Fringe Festival we collaborated with choreographer Windy Bowlsby (Jumpin' Jack Kerouac) and writer Ben Tallen (Tedious Brief Productions) on a dance and live brass quintet piece themed around the disappearance of our founder and friend, Mike Bratlie, whose small plane went off radar in June of 2012. Called "High Flight," it also used the words of the poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr.
This year we are bringing Max's journey to Where The Wild Things Are to life with dance, poetry, and live brass music. Our interpretation uses a wide variety of music (Barber's Adagio, The Grand March from Aida, and Toreador from Carmen, to name a few!) and poetry to tell Max's story in a new way.
This dance piece is suitable for all ages.
In 2016 we brought Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran The Circus" to life through live music and dance. Set to Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnival of the Animals," the high flying story about the power of imagination had acrobatics, dance, and live brass music.
As part of the 2015 MN Fringe Festival we collaborated with choreographer Windy Bowlsby (Jumpin' Jack Kerouac) and writer Ben Tallen (Tedious Brief Productions) on a dance and live brass quintet piece themed around the disappearance of our founder and friend, Mike Bratlie, whose small plane went off radar in June of 2012. Called "High Flight," it also used the words of the poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr.
This year we are bringing Max's journey to Where The Wild Things Are to life with dance, poetry, and live brass music. Our interpretation uses a wide variety of music (Barber's Adagio, The Grand March from Aida, and Toreador from Carmen, to name a few!) and poetry to tell Max's story in a new way.
This dance piece is suitable for all ages.
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Rumpus will be a part of the 2017 Minnesota Fringe Festival in August.
Venue: The Southern Theater Performance Schedule Thurs 8/3/2017 8:30 PM Sun 8/6/2017 2:30 PM Tues 8/8/2017 5:30 PM Fri 8/11/2017 7:00 PM Sun 8/13/2017 1:00 PM Tickets available now on the Fringe website! CAST/CREW Director: Carin Bratlie Wethern Choreographer: Lori Ledoux Stage manager: Clara Costello Max: David Pelletier Guire Dancers: Nora Anderson Danielle Cina Michelle de Joya Derek Meyer Rachael Schlee Noe Tallen Maria Wall Trumpet: Linda Dobberstein Trumpet: Joshua Horn French Horn: David Mills-Rittmann Trombone: Collin Hough Tuba: Carin Bratlie Wethern |
Cherry and Spoon calls Rumpus a 'pure delight':
"This show is pure delight... charming and inventive... Fun for all ages and sure to put a smile on your face." The City Pages mentions Rumpus: "Mike’s Brass are a Minneapolis brass quintet that happens to include Theatre Pro Rata’s leader Carin Bratlie Wethern. She directs Rumpus, a kid-friendly show combining music, dance, and poetry, inspired by Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are." Matthew Everett notes Rumpus as a Returning Favorite. |
Rachael Schlee
Noë Tallen
Derek Meyer
David Pelletier Guire
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Michelle De Joya
Lori Ledoux
Clara Costello
Nora Anderson
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