Night Shade

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Illuminate the senses as Night Shade's award-winning puppeteer Sarah Frechette & filmmaker Jason Thibodeaux & zine illuminator Christopher Rabilwongse – manipulate depth and space – in a live cinematic shadow experience never seen before. This Portland, OR-based clique formed after a collaboration with the band Japanther back in 2005. Night Shade has been rebelling against traditional flat-surface silhouettes and revolutionizing the ancient art of shadow puppetry for 19 years y'all! Touring internationally with epic hand-cut shadow shows and experimental short films, all while also honing their skills by working in stop-motion animation.

Night Shade cut a live music video with Quintron & Miss Pussycat; resurrected their shadow band at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans; twice lit up the Boulet Brothers Dragula Ball; collaborated with Pixies / Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin in Los Angeles, CA; performed under the full moon at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, MN; streamed live on Adult Swim's Bloodfeast; and traveled overseas to the 11th Internationales Schattentheater Festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, while working on popular tv series like Adult Swim’s The Shivering Truth and such Hollywood hits as Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo, along with Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio and Netflix’s Wendell & Wild.