For those who can’t wait until Puppets Up returns in 2026, Almonte is lucky to get a visit from Birdbone Theatre who will perform Broom Dance – a shadow puppet show for all ages with live music and soaring vocal harmonies. The show will be March 23rd at 2pm at the Mississippi Valley Textile museum, with tickets available from ticketsplease. Proceeds will support the 2026 Puppets Up Festival.
About the show
Broom Dance is a shadow puppet show for winter and winter witches, a shadow song for the threshold, for the liminal space between light and dark, between house and the howling wild. A luminous bow of song and cut paper to wild dark and to winter night.
Join us as we traverse magical thresholds into the domain of the forest-dwelling crone, Baba Yaga, from Slavic folklore, into the enchanted kitchen of the gift-giving Italian witch Befana, and through the wild realm of Matka Boska z wilkami – the mother with wolves from Polish folklore.
About Birdbone Theatre
Birdbone Theatre makes puppet shows from scratch and plays them live for the young and the old. We strive to make puppet theatre that might become a house for beauty, for remembering old songs and stories, for wild imaginings and for laughter in hard times. We keep in mind that theatre is a way by which we can know the times we live in, and a way by which the times might recognize us.
We craft our shows with materials at hand, layering techniques, and a vast musicality. We do not banish the unfinished and imperfect in our shows, instead we often play our work in its experimental stages to learn about it. We play music, sing and dance to keep it company.
Tickets are limited, so get them while they last from
ticketsplease. Any questions about the show can be directed to our presenting partner play where you live at info@playwhereyoulive.ca
