About LaRose
LaRose House is a vibrant performance venue that celebrates eclectic and immersive entertainment, hosting a diverse array of programming, including burlesque theater, puppet shows, and live music. With an intimate and atmospheric setting, it provides a unique space where audiences can experience bold, imaginative performances that blend artistry, storytelling, and spectacle. Whether showcasing avant-garde puppetry, sultry burlesque acts, or dynamic musical performances, LaRose House is a hub for creatives and spectators alike, fostering a rich and engaging cultural scene.
Today PuppetART offers a repertoire of eleven productions based on fairytales and folktales from around the world. Performances feature hand, rod, shadow, floor tabletop and string or marionette puppets all designed to incorporate the artistic traditions of the culture the source material is drawn from.
PuppetART
PERFORMANCE ART
SATORI CIRCUS
PERFORMANCE ART
SATORI CIRCUS has been a Detroit performance artist since September of 1988. Combining and weaving a myriad of the arts together - music, poetry (lyrics), film, theatre (experimental & the absurd), slapstick, vaudeville, movement – carving out an interdisciplinary niche out of the Detroit’s underground.
Accomplishments since 1988: America’s Got Talent, voted as Detroit’s #1 Theatre Group four times, 1995 and 2012, recipient of the Detroit Music Awards ‘Outstanding Live Performance’ award, performed at the DIA-DFT to two sold out crowds, poster boy for Detroit Metro Times “Best of Detroit”, 2014 “Best Performer of the Year” and 2015 “Life Time Achievement” award by Detroit Erotica Ball.
Headed into the 33rd year, SATORI CIRCUS has been acknowledged as, “the Blueman Group of Detroit”, “the absurdist clown in grease-paint”, “To be seen for developing a new direction in art” and “Genuine and fierce…dismantling our every notion as to what we expected!”
Our LaRose logo features multiple hidden ‘messages’. Can you see what they are?
HOUSE OF FANCY
MARK DANCEY - VISUAL ART
BURLESQUE
PERFORMANCE ART
"The House of Fancy" is an exhibition of oil paintings by Mark Dancey that uses the 1880s building that houses Detroit Contemporary Gallery as a theatrical stage set. Dancey will create site-specific life size trompe l'oeil paintings that, when seen in period lighting, will show us ghostly ladies from the house's sporting past. There is a tango opera onstage, a tarot parlor in the back room, and mysteries revealed upstairs. As viewers we are used to staring at pictures, but these paintings stare back at us in a way that is challenging and provocative.
LaRose House has lived many lives. Once a home, art gallery, and now- coming soon… performance, theatre and dining.
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