Our Mission

The Black Forest Fancies is a non-profit organization, puppet troupe, musical laboratory and cabaret collective. Our work explores history and human experience through a lens of fable, waging a whimsically playful and morbidly serious battle for alternative modes of being from the realm of the possessed and dispossessed. The Black Forest Fancies learn from the past. Tales of mistake, misfortune and the misbegotten lifted from history shine light on the folly of the future. Our star crossed narrative valentines explore tales of ecstasy and horror across time. We invoke the collective childhood and spin our depravity into hopefulness. We acknowledge the digital death of the earth and enact rituals for memory. Our marionettes, shadow puppets and sets are manufactured using methods from the archaic to the innovative. Aesthetic reverberations from the computer era are infused with classical stagecraft. As a non-profit, the organization serves to enhance the local arts community of New Orleans. "The Black Forest Fancies Incorporated" acts as an umbrella to individual artists and groups seeking grants for artistic endeavors, tours, equipment, venues and residences.