{"id":19075,"date":"2021-01-12T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=19075"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:00:32","slug":"bread-puppet-remi-paillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2021\/01\/12\/bread-puppet-remi-paillard\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye To Bread And Puppet’s Remi Paillard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of years at the theater’s Glover, Vermont, farm.<\/p>\n

Bread and Puppet Founder Peter Schumann says<\/a>: “Remi : So often an invisible force doing, fixing, repairing, preparing what would have been forgotten. Mostly, we took him for granted, so much so that when he wasn’t there problems didn’t get solved, got neglected or postponed.<\/p>\n

“Remi: High up on a ladder which rests on a chair in the Expo hall in Hannover Germany or equally precarious when mounting the reliefs into the ceiling of the paper-mache cathedral, must now be commissioned to start his afterlife amongst us; at the next occasion when an outhouse has to be moved to a new location we celebrate it with flags and sacred harp songs, to transform his big absence into the festive presence he deserves.”<\/div>\n
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Remi Paillard (right) and his partner Genevieve prepare a puppet at the Bread and Puppet farm, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 13, 2009. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (at table center) with his partner Genevieve and Peter Schumann have a celebratory breakfast at the Bread and Puppet farm, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 16, 2009. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (right) prepares to rehearse the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (second from left) lunches with his partner Genevieve (right of him), Peter Schumann (left) and other puppeteers at the Bread and Puppet farm on a performance Sunday, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (foreground left) helps move the Mother Earth puppet head for the Bread and Puppet Pageant, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (second from right) helps move the Mother Earth puppet head for the Bread and Puppet Pageant, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (second from left) helps move the Mother Earth puppet head for the Bread and Puppet Pageant, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (foreground) performs in a rehearsal for the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (foreground) performs in a rehearsal for the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (center) performs in the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 23, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (right) performs in the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 23, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard prepares to rehearse the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 22, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (left) photographs a rehearsal for the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 21, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (right) at a rehearsal for the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 21, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (right) at a rehearsal for the Bread and Puppet Circus, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 21, 2015. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remi Paillard (far background) photographs the memorial for Pooppy Gregory at the Bread and Puppet farm, Glover, Vermont, Aug. 18, 2012. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of years at the theater’s Glover, Vermont, farm. Bread and Puppet Founder Peter Schumann says: “Remi : So often an invisible force doing, fixing, repairing, preparing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,108,109,110],"tags":[13,403,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19084,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions\/19084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}