Sha Sha Higby “The Feathered Fox”

This was performed at Throckmorton Theatre in 2024. Sha Sha Higby is known internationally for her mythical evocative and haunting performances using puppetry and masks, in the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she creates and moves within. It is a metaphorically rich and intimate journey in elaborate multi-layered costume, micropuppetry, and projection.

ABOUT THIS EVENT. Using mobiles, puppets, micropuppetry and magic spears, Sha Sha Higby’s metaphoric multi-layered masks and costume, dance through the symbolic plight of our sky’s forests and our own demise. Projection collaborator, Keith Evans with his fascination devices will alchemically deify Sha Sha’s handmade artifacts with moving light. A battle of demons of fire in the forests is extinguished by the force of the oceans. A hole then opens in the sky and it begins to blow. Fish fly up catching the remains of dying souls. The fox appears and picks the souls as a bouquet and flies them to home to safety.

ABOUT Sha Sha Higby
Sha Sha Higby pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years, then spent one year in Japan studying the art of Noh Mask and theater, followed by a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship to study dance and shadow puppet making in the villages of Indonesia for five years at the Academy of Music and Dance, lacquer arts in Tokyo and Kyoto under the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an Indo-American Fellowship to study the textile arts of India, and a Pilot Travel Grants Fund from Arts International for Bhutan. She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theater Fellowship, U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, Theater Bay Area CASH, and support from the California Arts Council.