Event
Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating the Honeybee
Winner of the 2009 Gold Star Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for a work of innovation and excellence in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences,
and which fosters community engagement.
Buccaneers of Buzz inspires empathy and wonder at the gentle, intricate and complex nature of honeybees and their extraordinary feats of orientation, memory, communication and problem-solving, by integrating video footage of beekeepers and bees with a tap dancer, a marimbist, and vocalist (creator, videographer and vocalist Miranda Loud).
Through humor, storytelling, rhythm, musical artistry, and compassion, the show teaches audiences of all ages about the miraculous abilities of honeybees and the relationship beekeepers develop with their bees. Tap dancer Brian Jones acts as master of ceremonies, sometimes reciting bee facts or songs in verse punctuated by tap interludes, sometimes responding to the stories unfolding in the beekeeper videos. His dancing creates a bee-like energy of lightness and industriousness. Marimba player Yuko Yoshikawa and vocalist Miranda Loud create a live soundtrack to the film footage and musical interludes which connect the ideas in the films to sound and rhythmic textures.
Miranda Louds intriguing, whimsical and often emotionally-charged video shorts provide the background structure of the performance with: Meet the Beekeepers, The Queen and the Drones, Honey, Foraging, Smoking the Bees, Entering the Hives, a Bee To-Do List, The Sting, and Colony Collapse Disorder.
After the 2008 Massachusetts premiere several people exclaimed that they wanted to become beekeepers they were no longer afraid of honeybees and felt moved to protect them.
This event is sponsored in part by Rialto Arts - Where Nature Takes Center Stage, and by individual donors.
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LocationMIT Broad Institute Auditorium
7 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 6 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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