Stissing Center for Arts & Culture Presents "Liquid States," a Shadow Play Extraordinaire

Cave Dogs presents a startling original way of telling a story. Fluid shadows and images dance in wild imagination across the screen. Each performance promises a healthy dose of the sublime, the exciting, the absurd and the downright fun that will result in something infinitely compelling.

"Liquid States," a compilation of short stories, explores water as a substance and a metaphoric allusion and engages debates relating to the geographies and socio-politics of water. This 40-minute performance will consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a screen from a variety of props, costumes and performers. Shadows move in concert with projected video, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. The mobility of the light sources create multiple, richly layered visual tableaus and produce effects that conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation. The use of scale creates complex dynamics and images to enhance meaning in sound. It’s magical, like watching dreams cross into the conscious world.

Performances are set for 3 and 7 p.m. Click here to purchase tickets.