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’S
BEHIND 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, 2007
From the
New York Lottery
on June 7, the date
of Nagrin's death:
Another opening of
another show.