70 minutes

All ages

A contemporary fairy tale that magically transports the audience through space and time, capturing the journey of a woman as she navigates a life of self-discovery. Unfolding weaves together nostalgic youth and covetable wisdom to explore themes of female wisdom and empowerment. It uses moving performance and puppetry, shadow imagery, unique design, exquisitely hand-crafted puppets, and poignant original live music.

Director: Margarita Blush

Performers: Emily Batsford, Monica Lerch, Sophia Zukoski

Technical Director: Robert Blush

Photography and Videography: Sophia Blush

UNFOLDING is supported by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Indonesia

Profile Artist

Margarita Blush is a Bulgarian-American theatre artist. She holds a BFA degree in Performance and an MFA degree in Directing for Puppet Theatre from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria and a certificate in Lecoq-based devised physical theatre and pedagogy from Embodied Poetics in London, UK.

Margarita works internationally and has performed, taught, directed, and studied in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, Germany, France, the UK, Japan, and the USA.

Margarita moved to the US in 1995, where she later became an instructor and the Outreach Director for the Fort Wayne Dance Collective (FWDC) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Margarita was also a performer and choreographer for the FWDC Touring Company, touring regionally and nationally.

Margarita's latest production, Unfolding (2015), has been performed at festivals and venues in the U.S. (including the 2017 National Puppetry Festival), Bulgaria, and Turkey (funded by The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International Program). In spring 2019, the show had a 2-week run at The Tank in NYC with great critical and audience acclaim.