The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has something a little different on tap on Saturday afternoon (January 26)…

Michael Cooper is a puppeteer extraordinaire, a master mask-maker, a virtuoso mime and an eye-popping all-around visual performance artist. At 2pm on Saturday, Cooper will step onto the stage of the Music Hall to bring to life “Masked Marvels & Wondertales.”

Combining the mythical and the autobiographical, Cooper’s one-man extravaganza features his breathtaking handcrafted masks, original stories of courage and wonder, outlandish stilt-dancing, and a physical repertoire that ranges from the madcap to the sublime. The result is “moving sculpture.”

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