Happy 2009!

We certainly had a wonderful 2008 at Companie J’amusement, with jams and shows from Winnipeg to Victoria in the spring and fall, new contributors and equipment, and exciting sound, dance, and video emerging from the Freed the Puppet project.  Search ’Freed the Puppet’ on YouTube to view a full performance from April 2008, complete with original sound! 

We plan to kick it up a notch in 2009, starting with this blog, and the launching of www.jamusement.net v3.0 at the end of the month.  We have a little J’amusement creation space set up in Halifax’s north end this winter, and I am very excited to see, feel, and hear all the exciting art that will flow from the Behind the Couch studio before we head west this spring.  Just yesterday, a new contributor, Eloise Kirk of Tazmania, Australia, was in the studio sketching a background for the Freed the Puppet stop motion set.  We’re about ready to start shooting!  Also this winter we’re hosting open jams on Thursdays at a space here in Halifax, and instead of planning and promoting performances on tour this spring, we’ll attempt to host public jams in small gallery/dance spaces from Halifax to Thunder Bay.  On tour!

A giant thank-you to everyone who contributed time and talent in 2008, happy new year!

t.mac