Category: Spoleto Festival
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Les Colporteurs’ “Filao”
The best part of the show comes when limbs of trees are scattered all over the stage, on the ground, and along the highwire. Agathe Olivier (co-founder of Les Colporteurs with Antoine Rigot) walks across the uneven limbs in high heels….
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The Colla Marionettes’ “Aida”
The marionettes themselves were very life-like — with Amneris and Aida being exceptionally realistic. The costumes and scenery are truly works of art, and the set is like the most beautiful jewel-box ever made.
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Les Grandes Ballets Canadiens at Spoleto
These contemporary pieces were done with artistry and precision by a company whose artistic director, Gradimir Pankov, says he wants to turn it into one of the most exciting companies in the world.
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Les Colporteurs and their noveau cirque
The big top tent is perhaps the star of this ensemble — or rather the heart. It has an opaque, caramel- and ivory-striped exterior that rises 49 feet high. … It takes the group three days to set up the tent and two days to strike it. Antoine calls the tent “our playground, our place…
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The Scupture of Joel Shapiro at Middleton Place
As one cow rubs its nose against one of Shapiro’s pieces, he laughs and says, “Maybe the cows are the most responsive to my work — they find it a good scratching post!”
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Joel Shapiro Designs a Spoleto Poster
Nigel Redden, director of Spoleto Festival USA, believes the poster image captures the “whimsy and movement of Joel’s work.”
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Martha Jackson-Jarvis at Spoleto
Her use of herbs and seashells and images of birds symbolize nature, and her use of wrought iron in very flowing forms makes the iron seem very organic.
Kristen L. Rhodes 