{"id":2415,"date":"2012-04-10T23:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2012-04-10T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:05:52","slug":"handspring-theatre-companys-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/04\/10\/handspring-theatre-companys-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Handspring Theatre Company&#8217;s <i>Crow<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2417\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/04\/10\/handspring-theatre-companys-crow\/crow2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,389\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crow2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2417\" title=\"crow2\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2.jpg\" alt=\"Handspring Theatre Company's Crow puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow2-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Handspring Puppet Company UK, the sister company to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handspringpuppet.co.za\/\">Handspring Puppet Company <\/a>South Africa, has a major new dance theatre production called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/london-2012-festival\/8915862\/London-2012-Festival-Top-10-guide-br5.-Crow-by-Ted-Hughes.html \">Crow<\/a><\/em> premiering in mid-June\u00a0as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.festival.org\/#crow\">Greenwich+Docklands International Festival<\/a>\u00a0in London. It is inspired by Ted Hughes&#8217; 1970 poetic work <em>Crow. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crow witnesses God&#8217;s creation in the Garden of Eden and adds his own dry trickery to the events. Droll, lonely, adaptable, laughing, watching, instinctive and curious, Crow is in all of us, and in these poems Hughes presents the songs he would sing. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.london2012.com\/events\/9000961519\">London 2012 Festival<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prototype puppet looks cool! (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/london-2012-festival\/8915862\/London-2012-Festival-Top-10-guide-br5.-Crow-by-Ted-Hughes.html\">Telegraph.co.uk<\/a>)<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2416\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/04\/10\/handspring-theatre-companys-crow\/crow\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,312\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2416\" title=\"crow\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow.jpg\" alt=\"Handspring Theatre Company's Crow puppet\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow.jpg 500w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As does the illustration for the promotional material:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2012\/04\/10\/handspring-theatre-companys-crow\/crow3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"crow3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2418\" title=\"crow3\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration for Handspring Theatre Company's Crow\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/crow3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Handspring Puppet Company UK, the sister company to Handspring Puppet Company South Africa, has a major new dance theatre production called Crow premiering in mid-June\u00a0as part of the\u00a0Greenwich+Docklands International Festival\u00a0in London. It is inspired by Ted Hughes&#8217; 1970 poetic work Crow. 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