HOBT's Ivey Award-Winning Show Returns for the Holidays, Dec. 11-21

This holiday season, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT) brings back its Ivey Award-winning winter solstice show, Between the Worlds. Celebrating the solitude and richness of dark winter nights, the evening-long song cycle will be on stage December 11-21 at HOBT's Avalon Theater at 1500 E. Lake St. in Minneapolis.

Flowing with a capella choral pieces, haunting cello and guitar, lively accordion music, balafon, marimbas and flute, Between the Worlds is a river of music from start to finish. The evening moves along a ceremonial journey from vibrant color to the stark whiteness of snow, mirroring the dance of crones toward the dark curtain of death. Through puppetry and masked dance the audience and performers will celebrate the birth of the returning light. A reception with warming beverages and home-baked cookies will follow each performance.

"Between the Worlds is a tribute to the beauty and mystery of the winter solstice, the time of darkness when earth is sleeping," said HOBT Artistic Director Sandy Spieler.

Tickets for Between the Worlds are $20 and can be purchased at the HOBT Box Office at 612-721-2535 or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2438625 or through www.hobt.org. Individual and group discounts are available.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Friday, December 11: 7.00pm
Saturday, December 12: 7.00pm
Sunday, December 13: 3.00pmFriday, December 18: 7.00pm
Saturday, December 19: 7.00pm
Sunday, December 20: 3.00pm & 7.00pm
Monday, December 21: 7.00pm

ABOUT HOBT

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT) is a singular theater company recognized internationally for both its artistry and service to the community. Through performance, ceremony, teaching, and community building, HOBT explores and celebrates the human experience and the wonders of the world's natural and cultural richness.

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre began quietly, in the early 1970s, as a group of friends gathered around folding tables and buckets of paste in the basement of Walker Church. From these humble beginnings, the theater has grown into its current identity as the shepherd of the May Day Festival attended by over 50,000 people in south Minneapolis's Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods. For almost 40 years now, In the Heart of the Beast has worked to bring theater to streets and neighbors to worktables.