It's Our Birthday! Treehouse Shakers Is Turning 20 Years Old

It's our birthday! Treehouse Shakers is having our 20th Birthday Party on November 4, 2017, and everyone is invited to celebrate. 

20 years ago, Treehouse Shakers was founded in New York City by myself and Emily Bunning. We grew up together in Wyoming, and as children often found ourselves inventing imaginative games, stories and dances, while spending most of our time outside amongst the arrowheads and desert rocks. When we were six, we began taking art classes with Emily’s great-aunt Susie.

Susan Young, our formidable art teacher

These art classes gave us a strong foundation in visual arts; we spent time painting, creating sculptures, and working on a potter’s wheel. For lunches, Susie would make lunch and we would spend the time deep in discussion about art, Wyoming and Susie’s childhood on their family homestead. As we grew older we spent our summers at performing arts camp, and eventually went onto college at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri to pursue our artistic passions. It was there, that we collaborated for the first time for a project I was creating for a Directing I class. I wanted to deconstruct poetry written by women, and incorporate movement within the poetry instead of blocking as the actors spoke.

Babies & Toddlers at our piece for ages 0-6, Hatched

Shortly after moving to New York City in 1997 we created our first piece together, Dance of My Daughter. Dance of My Daughter, written by Mara McEwin and Choreographed by Emily Bunning, which enjoyed a very successful two-week run at the Ensemble Theater, NYC. Since that first piece, we have made fourteen original shows, worked in countless schools, with arts in education residencies and workshops, and currently have 6 shows on a rotating tour.

Olive & Pearl, Our Newest Work for ages 2-5

We are thrilled to have experienced this adventurous 20 year journey as a company, and look forward to continuing to grow as a company, have an impact on the field of Theater for Young Audiences, and inspire young people through the arts. Please join us to celebrate this exciting company milestone.

When: Saturday, November 4, 2017
            11AM-1PM

Where: BAM/Fisher
             321 Ashland Place
             Brooklyn, NY 11215

Tickets & Info: http://ths20years.bpt.me/

This event is presented by Treehouse Shakers. BAM house and ticketing policies, including BAM membership benefits, may not apply.