HUDSON VAGABOND PUPPETS creates larger-than-life puppetry and mask programs designed to fit into the school curriculum as well as to entertain children and their families. Our performers are professional dancers and clad in black, the puppeteers borrow from the traditional Japanese Bunraku style of puppetry, becoming mere shadows of the enormous figures they bring to life.

HVP tours nationally throughout the year and has performed in concert halls, theater, colleges, and major performing arts centers, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The California Institute of Technology, Empire Center at the Egg, The Tilles Center for the Arts, Centre East Presents, the Luther Burbank Center, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Narrated ballets are a specialty of the company. Our puppets have danced with symphony orchestras including The Little Orchestra Society at Avery Fischer Hall, the Phoenix Arizona Symphony, the Wheeling W. VA Symphony (conducted by Rachel Warby), the St. Louis Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the United States Military Concert Band at Eisenhower Hall at West Point.

Although scientists assert dinosaurs became extinct several million years ago, several seem to have
survived. And they’ve leaned to sing and dance, thanks to the Hudson Vagabond Puppets.

For more information or a copy of the study guide, check the website at www.hvpuppets.org.