Premiere: September 3-18, 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia PA
626 North 5th Street - Theater West at the HUB
Development Residencies/ in-progress showings: Amherst College (June 2009); Maggie Alesse National Center for Choreography MANCC, Tallahassee FL (August 2009); Swarthmore College (October 2009), The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (March/May/June 2010)
TAKES is a genre bending exploration of dance installation and cinema. Conceived by Canuso and Multi-media director Lars Jan, TAKES immerses you in a shimmering world of film noir dream. Barely separated from the audience by the thin membrane of a giant projection box this haunting duet flickers between memories and an intimate, visceral present. A gorgeously sensual melding of live bodies and film, TAKES manifests, reframes, refracts and spatially unfolds the forgotten moments of a relationship in real-time. Canuso performs alongside Dito Van Reigersberg (Pig Iron Theatre Company) in this panoramic adventure for the senses.
The audience is free to wander and shift perspective during the performance as well as during gallery hours. They are invited into the gallery to explore the performance space and interact with the exhibit. At scheduled performance times, the two performers enter and the live event unfolds. more about the Gallery HERE.
Currently in progress, TAKES will premiere September 2010 at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
The research and development of TAKES is made possible by a grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.
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