The Penny Jones Puppet Company performed The Sorcerer's Apprentice today at Governors Island for the Figment Festival. The puppet show is a lyrical journey into the nature of subjectification and the darker side of magic as a social practice. I play the magic book in the show. In the world of puppets, magic is a diabolical tool because it can indeed grip the apprentice and undermine his reality. I was introduced to this tale of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by the anthropologist Michael Taussig, whose on work on magic and shamanism influences thinking on puppetry, ritual and movement. The extraordinary nineteenth century German writer Heinrich Von Kleist writes that a wooden marionette has the agility and poetry of movement that often escapes the live performer. This idea is forever intriguing, and it is absolutely the magic about this The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
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