Folding into a Tempest Performance by Sha Sha Higby

Folding into a Tempest"
by Sha Sha Higby
a journey in, elaborate sculptural costume


It is all up to you....




however..
"These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are all melted into air,
And like the baseless fabric of this vision, (the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit,) shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. "
-William Shakespeare




SHA SHA HIGBY-Costumer & Performer
International performance/sculptural artist, Sha Sha Higby is known for her evocative and haunting performances using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she meticulously creates herself and moves. Elaborate sculptural costume, dance, and puppetry explore magic and emotion; creating an atmospheric world within the borders between death and life's Higby started out making dolls and pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years. Ms. Higby has performed her unique body of work throughout the United States, and internationally in Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland, England, Belgium, Germany and Holland. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Artist Fellowship, The Zellerbach Family Fund, and the California Arts Council New Genre Individual Artist Fellowship.

She studied for one year in Japan in 1971, observing the art of Noh Mask and theater and then received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to study dance & shadow puppet making and performance arts in Indonesia for 5 years at the Academy of Music, Central Java, Indonesia. In addition to traveling throughout Southeast Asia to Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), she received an Indo-American Fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Travel Grants Fund from Arts International to study in Bhutan. She has also recently studied lacquer arts in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan through the auspices of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.

Lighting Technicians Albert Hollander & Stephen Siegel
Front photo by Albert Hollander

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[Alexis Wittman]

I really gained a new perspective from this performance.