Basil Twist
2013-17 Mohr Visiting Artist
The Stanford University Department of Theater and Performance Studies will host New York based artist Basil Twist during the spring 2014 term as the third Mohr Visiting Artist.
The Mohr Visiting Artist Program is supported by Nancy and Larry Mohr and administered by the Stanford Arts Institute.
Related Course
TAPS 144 / TAPS 344: Puppetry with a Twist
Creative course is an introduction to puppetry with a survey of important styles and techniques from around the world including Twist’s own. Hands on and individualized experience with the aim of each student creating or contributing to a puppet or object/figure performance. Course is as broad as the individual’s creative expression. Concludes with a class showing/performance of the student’s work.
About Basil Twist
Basil Twist is a native Californian who ventured to New York over 20 years ago, and has garnered an international reputation as an audacious designer, director and performer. He creates iconic, visionary puppetry worlds with a remarkable range of style and scope appearing in intimate nightclubs to large orchestra halls. He has taught at leading Universities such as Duke, New York University, and Brown and as a guest lecturer of the US State Dept in Russia. He has received an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, five UNIMA Awards, two Bessie Awards, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, a Henry Hewes Award, a Guggenheim, a USA Artist fellowship and was most recently awarded a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In 2012 Washington D.C. hosted a retrospective of his work, Twist Fest D.C. He is the Director of the Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE in New York.
