Thanks to all of you who attended, and to all of the volunteers, performers, musicians and staff who created Devoured, the sixteenth annual BareBones Halloween Extravaganza!

Photos from the BareBones 2009 Halloween Extravaganza, Devoured. Taken October 31, 2009 by Jayme Halbritter.

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Pre- Show Preparations, October 31, 2009.

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Photos from Jayme Halbritter, documenting the preparation for the 2009 BareBones Halloween Extravaganza.

9/17: Halloween 2009 Kickoff Meeting

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10/10: Build

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10/11: Rehearsal

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10/15: Build

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10/18:Rehearsal

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10/19: Rehearsal

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10/31 Pre-Performance

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• Read the feature story in vita.mn about Devoured
• Read a review of Devoured from the Twin Cities Daily Planet

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For more info contact call 651-592-7867 - emily@bedlamtheatre.org

Comment from Megan M. about Devoured:

“My heartfelt congratulations to all involved in this show! It’s an amazing event and I’m so impressed at how you pull all the elements together year after year. This year on opening night I scored a killer seat on a hay bale close to the front next to the orchestra and enjoyed watching the musicians as much as the performers. Maren’s Julia Child was great, and the chickens were perfectly creepy. I loved the musicians moving in the woods as we walked to the hay bales and the performers’ faces are always captivating. I think one of the reasons this show is so successful is that we as an audience get to walk through the performance space making it both magical and accessible. The wolves were amazing and the backwards-moving vultures (genius!) made their movement appropriately unsettling. The tree-moths were beautiful and I lost track of time while watching them unfold. The fire work was impressive (hope that guy’s hand is ok) and I enjoyed walking through the glow of the flames. The large bluish face-creature took my breath away, and the projections down at the river were amazing! It’s really a treat to be outside during this time of year and smell the leaves and be part of the audience and see the woods lit up. Thank you for all of your work.”

This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.

Co-Director, Halloween 2009

Christopher Allen is a Twin Cities born actor, community arts teacher, printmaker, and set builder. As a child, he began performing in his parent’s basement creating site-specific pieces centering on youth and parental angst. In more recent times Christopher has performed in and built for Barebones Annual Halloween Show since 2006.

He has been working as a performer and company member of Bedlam Theatre since 2007. His most recent work includes set design for Million Dollar Museum at Bedlam Theatre, performing in the 2009 Fringe show Comedy Of Errors, and playing an angst-filled teenager in Joseph Evan’s Turducken.

As well as performing on stage at various Twin Cities Theaters, Christopher enjoys building shadow puppets, paper cuts, and woodcuts. When not working on a show, he is Youth Coordinator at Bedlam, helping Cedar Riverside youth express themselves and each other through community and the performing arts. Most recently in collaboration with Brian Coyle Center youth he organized and created a neighborhood “Urban Safari” parade, teaching nearly 20 kids to stilt.

This fall he is ecstatic to be co-director of Barebones Halloween madness, and delighted to bring a little pure evil into the show.

Visiting Artist, Halloween 2009

Music Director, 2009 Halloween Show

Graphics Designer, Halloween 2009

JoAnn Blohowiak is a South Minneapolis resident, artist, and graphic designer. She has created the BareBones tabloid for the past three years. For this year’s Halloween show, JoAnn will also be playing her trumpet with the BareBones Music Ensemble.

Visit JoAnn’s Website

Co-Director, Halloween 2009

Lelis Brito is a Venezuelan-American director, choreographer, performer and educator of movement-theater who has worked for national and international venues for over 25 years. Her early training in dance with the Joffrey Ballet and Solange Golovine led her to a professional career in dance, dancing with Dayton Contemporary Dance, Cincinnati Contemporary Dance theatre, and Kei Takei’s Moving Earth amongst others.

Having created over 70 original works to date, including plays, choreographed dances, and visual scenography narratives, she began stretching her compositional thinking at Antioch College in the late 80’s where she studied puppetry and Visual Scenography with Amy Trompetter and others, and developed her performance composition under the tutelage of Dimitra Reber. She moved on to become a member of various performance collectives and collaboratives and locally has performed with In the Heart of the Beast, Trece Lunas Arts Collective, Bedlam Theatre, Rosy Simas Dance Company, Red Eye Collaborative, and more.

She has served as dance faculty at Antioch College, taught dance, composition, and performance for various companies, and has brought kinaethetic education into the public school classrooms through her Kinaesthetic Connections program. For 3 years, she developed innovative family-centered somatic fitness programming for Running Wolf Fitness Center. In 1997 she earned her MFA in dance composition, developing physical approach to Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the oppressed techniques. She continues to develop Boal’s work, most recently teaching at the International Theatre of the Oppressed conference in May of 2009.

She has choreographed and coached stilters and fire performers (most recently for Rah Kojis’ Infiamati) and in 2004 was assistant Director for the Puppetry Arts Studio production of Mercurius Lumens. She is the founder of the Center for Moving Cultures, an organization dedicated to transforming the experienced body through education and performance. She is also a certified personal trainer and body image educator.

After performing with Barebones Fleeced, she joins the Barebones team as Co-director, helping to weave multiple visions into a cohesive dream at the end of Fall.