Pussypaws Puppetry: That Paradise Place. Photo by Emma Kazaryan. Courtesy the artist.
The Technical Residency is closed to the public.
CPR welcomes Pussypaws Puppetry, an inclusive puppet troupe of visual artists, musicians, and performers with and without disabilities, for a Spring 2025 Technical Residency. Since 2020, Pussypaws Puppetry has created an evolving folk archive chronicling the love, sex, and fantasy lives of artists with disabilities. Their 2024 musical production That Paradise Place brought 16 such tales to life with the help of over 100 handmade puppets and 60 artists.
During their week-long residency at CPR, Pussypaws Puppetry will revive the spirit of the project while toying with the particulars, adding new disabled voices into the collective cauldron, bringing them to life through puppetry and performance, and holding auditions to bring in new members. The result will be a vaudevillian celebration of eroticism, creativity, and connection for all.
The technical Residency will culminate in a three-night OPEN AiR program of their new work in development The Bosch Pit on May 29-30, 2025. Tickets and more information here.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Pussypaws Puppetry is an inclusive puppet troupe of visual artists, musicians, and performers with and without disabilities. They are enchanted by all things silly, spirited, and sensual. Inspired by puppetry’s legacy as a medium of the people – inherently playful, provocative, and predominantly existing outside art world norms and trends – Pussypaws offers a freewheeling, experimental, accessible creative space where artists of all persuasions, backgrounds, and abilities can make puppet shows and have fun. The collective was founded in 2020 by sisters Priscilla Frank and Alana Hauser, and is named after the Pussypaws flower, whose magical properties open us to the healing powers of physical touch.