RojoFest
presented by Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry and Connecticut Repertory Theatre
This inaugural festival of new works is a celebration of UConn dramatic arts students’ boundless creativity. Named in honor of the late Jerry Rojo, who served on the UConn faculty from 1961 to 1990 and designed the unique Mobius Theatre, the festival was born out of a desire to create a celebratory home for the creative writing, devising and theatre crafting of our amazing students!
The (First Annual) Jerry Rojo Festival of Original Student Work will run January 25-28 in multiple UConn drama spaces. The festival features two MFA Puppet Arts projects (by Abigail Baird and Carrie Fowler) and six additional student-generated performances.
All performances are free. Visit bimp.ticketleap.com to reserve your seats.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26
Nothing Really Matters by Abigail Baird
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
At the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre, 2132 Hillside Road, Unit 3014, Storrs, CT 06269
Abigail Baird is a creative and tenacious arts educator, director, animator and acrobatic-actor. As a physical storyteller, she transforms puppetry, animation and aerial acrobatics into engaging and electric theatrical performances. Her work explore the potential relationships between objects, people and digital media. By physically interacting with puppets and large-scale projected animations, she builds symbiotic relationships that breathe life into digital media.
This MFA thesis project is a nonverbal, aerial acrobatic and physical theater performance featuring puppetry, stop motion and digital animation. This one woman show titled, Nothing Really Matters, explores the alchemy of these various modalities through an engaging story about a woman who self-shames her need for rest while wrestling with her internal relationship to productivity.