On March 13th, 2011 at 9:00PM, I presented my multi-media artist-talk, Object/Fetish: Staging the Suspension of Disbelief in Every Day Life at Club Sapien, a short-lived inclusive queer nightclub known for its community outrech in Calgary. My presentation of Object/Fetish was made in conjunction with the Calgary Animated Object Society (CAOS) and their International Festival of Animated Objects.
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Calgary Herald (interview)
On March 12th, 2011, The Calgary Herald published an interview that described my work as “light years away from the child-oriented Muppets universe that Jim Henson introduced.”
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On March 11th and 12th, 2011, I performed Fudgie’s Death at International Festival of Animated Objects in Calgary.
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In the “The North American Puppet Slam Scene in 2010”, I was interviewed by Teresa Smalec for Puppetry International on my work as a curator of short-form puppetry for adults and in my role as co-founder of the Puppet Slam Network.
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Rachel Rosenthal Co. (education / support)
In 2010, I was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Scholarship to study with pioneering performance artist, Rachel Rosenthal and her DbD (Doing by Doing) performance improvisation technique at the Rachel Rosenthal Company in Culver City, Los Angeles. The workshop ran from September 10th – September 12th, 2010. The Emerging Artist Scholarship was made possible in part with funding from Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
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LA County Arts (support)
In September 2010, I was the recipient funding from LA County Arts Commission which enabled me to work with Rachel Rosenthal and Company in both her DbD (Doing by Doing) weekend workshop in September 2010 and her 8-week class in May 2011, where I developed Web of Mystery.
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On July 7th, 2010, Dan Walechuck appeared on CJOB (Winnipeg) to talk about The Puppet Slam Network and the Winnipeg Puppet Slam, in which I performed Fudgie’s Death, a segment from Growing Up Linda.
Continue reading “CJOB, Winnipeg”Matt Rineveld Memorial Fund (support)
In June 2010, I was the recipient of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry Scholarship to participate in the the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. While at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center I worked on Dawn of the Apocalypse in which I portrayed an anthropomorphized oil spill, I performed puppets in Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, (a puppet film directed by Tim Lagasse and Martin Robinson), Fudgie’s Death at Blue Gene’s Pub, and Paul McGuiness’ table-top puppetry piece on split focus. While there I also hosted a puppet slam summit with Puppet Slam Network curators from around the country.
Watermark, Orlando (review)
In May 26 2010, Scottie Campbell said of my performance, Fudgie’s Death, in Watermark that “Technology meets traditional storytelling to great effect […] De Lellis is an engaging performer who delivers the story with deceptive nonchalance”
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On April 22, 2010, Time Out – Chicago published an image from Fudgie’s Death in their coverage of the Banners and Cranks Festival in which I was performing.
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