Dan Butterworth's intricately hand carved puppets dance and whirl from the stage, through the air, and right out into the audience, moving to a stream of infectious world music. A plethora of puppet styles and genres combine and build until the whole stage becomes one huge moving carnival creature.

Supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts since 1979, Dan and his puppets have performed in movies, operas, classical music festivals and TV specials. Dan's magical celebrations have been staged from the big city of New York to the Inuit villages of Alaska.

Butterworth Marionettes' ability to travel to the remotest locations allows for an unusual creative interplay rarely found in typical theater organizations. His troupe has toured throughout the world, performing in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and all of the US and Canada.

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