In 2009 Yellow Barn commissioned a production of Sofia Gubaidulina's Dancer on a Tightrope in collaboration with Sandglass Theater, a frequent Yellow Barn partner, to honor John Burt, Yellow Barn's 2009 Scholarship Benefit honoree. One year later Yellow Barn and Sandglass Theater reunited to videotape the production.

This collaboration was made possible with the generous support of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, the Fresh Sound Foundation's Trustee Discretionary Fund, and neighbors in the Friendship Loop in Putney, VT.

Violaine Melançon, violin
Seth Knopp, piano
Puppet by Ines Zeller Bass
Performed by Ines Zeller Bass, Jana Zeller, and Eric Bass
Staged by Eric Bass