Evidence of FloodsAuthor(s): Janie GeiserSource: Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 19, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 47-63Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of the Performing Arts Journal, Inc.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3245862Accessed: 11/12/2009 20:13

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EVIDENCE OF FLOODS

Janie Geiser

A puppet performance conceived, directed, and designed by Janie Geiser; music by Chip Epsten; lighting by Emily Stork; costumes by Judith Anderson.

E vidence ofFloods was first presented in September 1994 at the Arts Festival of Atlanta. It premiered in New York at Dance Theater Workshop in November 1994 and was performed in September 1996 at the International Festival of

Puppet Theater.

Evidence of Floods, Scene 5. Photo: Courtesy Richard Termue.

JANIE GEISER is a theatre artist and director who has been working with

puppets since 1981. Her 1992 piece, When the Wind Blows, was presented at the first International Festival of Puppet Theater at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Since 1990 Geiser has also been making short films, first as an element of her performances, and then as separate works. Her film The Red Hook was featured at the 1996 New Directors/New Films series at the Museum of Modern Art. Her most recent animated film, The Secret Story, was shown in 1996 at the New York Film Festival. Geiser is also a nationally recognized illustrator, whose work appears frequently in The New York Times Book Review.

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