Jenny Walty

The images I have been posting to illustrate our trip to Vermont were created by Bread & Puppet, a collaborative / community / project / performance / festival / circus / pagaent / commune / sculpture / music / experience founded and led by Peter Schumann. David and Joan used to perform every year in an annual summer Domestic Resurrection Circus and Pagaent, and Brynna Kate often performed with her parents when she was young. One summer she went to work everyday as an apprentice, rotating work in the fields, cooking and cleaning, creating the performances, and making puppets. Peter taught her his recipe for the sculpting clay he used to mold the puppets: fresh clay dug from the ground, straw, and beer!

Bread & Puppet is part of a Cheap Art movement and continues to stage free performances every sunday in the summer. Donations support puppetiers, musicians, and artists from all over the world who come to participate.

Usually the performance takes place in the field, rain or shine, a sort of natural ampetheater with the pine woods playing a character in the background, but this Sunday Bread & Puppet performed in their new building and I have to admit that it was nice to be inside and out of the rain. The Circus of the Correct Moment, as it was announced, was a beautiful chorus of voices speaking their truths with the conviction of living them, it was totally inspiring and urged me to more closely approach my beliefs within my daily choices.