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White Bird on a Stick

by Sha Sha Higby
review in SF Chronicle by Robert Hurwitt

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Whistling the costumes: The always astonishing Sha Sha Higby just closed one of her rare brief runs (at the Exit Theatre), but "White Bird on a Stick," her latest creation, can be seen July 12 at the Point Reyes Dance Palace (415- 868-2409). Truly one of a kind, the Bolinas performance artist spends a year or more creating intricate costumes that look like beautiful, inchoate growths of leaves, masks, crinoline, arms, batik, twigs, carapaces and dolls.

A Higby performance is a blissful combination of shamanism, dance and puppetry in which the costume comes alive, mutates, sheds parts and rearranges others. It usually ends with the emergence of an almost naked body in a process of rebirth. For three decades, her art has remained as impressively unique as it is whimsically refreshing.

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