Cause and Effect
Part of Creatures Prophets of Compassion a festival of art, science , and spirit
October 29-30, 2025
Tickets: $25/$30
For Tickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1248732
Created & Co-Directed by Federico Restrepo & Denise Greber
Choreography, Light, Set & Puppet Design: Federico Restrepo
Original Music: Juan Sebastian Monsalve
Performed by: Federico Restrepo with Katherine De La Cruz, Katie Leffen, Ali Molaei, Ursula Tinoco
Cause and Effect is an innovative dance-puppet experience that intertwines rod puppetry, marionettes, dance, acrobatics, and video to explore the deep connections between humans, animals, and the environment. This project delves into themes of interdependence, showcasing the beauty and fragility of the natural world. By fusing movement, puppetry, and visual art, we aim to reveal the intricate relationship between nature, the animal kingdom, and the human condition, highlighting the profound impact each has on the other.
ABOUT CREATURES
Creatures is a two-week inhabitation of installations, short works/performances, workshops, meals, vigils, processions, & conversations, with artists, scientists, scholars, & theologians from across the globe to consider non-human protagonists as prophets of compassion in an era of great ecological precarity.
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ON DEMAND: LUNCH WITH SONIA
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company will share a live recored performance from their work, Lunch With Sonia, which was presented in the Fall at La MaMa.
Lunch with Sonia is a dance puppet theatre piece inspired by Restrepo’s true-life experience with his Aunt Sonia, a woman who decided to end her life with dignity after a long illness at the age of 72. The show uses puppets, live actors, music, video, and physical theatre to deal with the themes of life, love, and loss.
With this piece, Loco7 hopes to acknowledge the incredible intimacy and very personal nature of dying as the final event of living a self-actualized, individual human life, and to move the dialogue from the philosophical arena to the realm of personal experience and stories related to the topic of Death with Dignity.
Don Quixote Takes New York
Loco7 reimagines this classic text with puppets, dance, and music to show the audience that no dream is too impossible to obtain and, with hope and heart, you can conquer fear.
Don Quixote and his friend Sancho Panza travel the five boroughs of New York City on a quest to save the world from evil forces and protect Lady Liberty. The audience follows Don Quixote as he explores New York City in his quest for love, honor, liberty, and justice for all.