Site Coordinator, Halloween Show 2009
Brent joined BareBones Productions in 1999 as a puppeteer for “YDK”, was Halloween Usher Coordinator for seven years, and has been Halloween Site Coordinator and de-facto Fire Safety Coordinator since 2005. Brent has served on the Board of Directors since 2005 and is currently the Treasurer of the organization. He has performed as a pogo-stilter twice for Halloween in the roles of “vampire bat” and “gargoyle”.
Brent chaired the BareBones Dumpster Duel Coordinating Committee (BBDDCC) in 2006 and 2007, and has performed as a puppeter, stilter, and bicycle puppeteer for various BareBones gigs, notably as a giant, disembodied chain saw on stage at First Avenue in 2000.
In addition to his work with BareBones Productions, Brent has been a regular on the MayDay Parade & Festival scene at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater in Minneapolis. He built and performed eleven large puppets for the MayDay Parade as a volunteer between 1998 and 2010, was MayDay Ceremony Stage Manager in 2004 and 2005, and was Parade Line-Up Security Coordinator from 2007-2009.
Brent can occasionally be spotted on the regional puppet, spectacle, and performance scene as a stilter, puppeteer, fire safety spotter, or banjoist, and has fulfilled various performance or backside gigs involving the Bayfield Apple Festival, Art Car Parade, Art Shanty Projects, Live Art, Art Sled Rally, and Bedlam Theatre. His jug band, “Sasquatch Wristwatch,” after years of “also ran” anonymity, has taken Third Place the last two years in a row at the annual Minneapolis “Battle of the Jug Bands,” bringing home the coveted deck of playing cards in 2009 and winning the crowd in 2010 with an historic jug-rendering of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”
Brent casts an iron piece each year at iron pours produced by Ironhead Sculptural Services, and has achieved a certain underground notoriety in local private party circles as a “fire pour” performance artist who makes edible spectacles using homemade ice cream, Flaming Cherries Jubilee, and the amazing “fuererzangenbowle”.
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