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PTERO DANCE THEATRE DEBUTS “H2~EAU” on JUNE 23rd, 2011
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press/media contact: Philip Sokoloff, (626) 683-9205
PTERO DANCE THEATRE DEBUTS “H2~EAU” ON JUNE 23 FOR FOUR PERFORMANCES
WHAT: “H2~Eau.” World Premiere of a new dance theatre work.
WHO: PTERO Dance Theatre. Created and choreographed by Paula Present.
WHERE: Club Fais Do-Do, 5253 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016.
WHEN: June 23-26, 2011. Thurs.-Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 6 p.m.
ADMISSION: $20.
RESERVATIONS: (800) 838-3006.
ONLINE TICKETING: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/164291
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“H2~Eau” is a full evening event, a new work of dance theatre enhanced with live music, photography and film. Creator-choreographer Paula Present cites a recent exhibition at Annenberg Space for Photography, “Water: Our Thirsty World,” as one source of inspiration: “I saw alien images of people without water, fighting for water, and searching long hours for it. All I had to do was turn on a faucet. Our bodies are 78% water, thus manifesting beautiful images for dance. The show will focus on four themes, abundance, thirst, ritual and conservation. Think of all the things you use water for. Without water, there is no life. Water awareness is not only a conservational issue; it’s a humanitarian issue.
"The creative works will draw inspiration from the necessity of California’s water conservation efforts, in the hope of raising awareness of personal water use in Los Angeles, as well as insightful perspective of the water crisis worldwide.”
The piece will be staged in the big ballroom of Club Fais Do-Do. To embody the theme of water on every level, the audience will move and flow from dance to dance within the ballroom.
The evening will also include speakers Gil Garcetti, former district attorney turned art photographer and creator of the book “Water Is Key,” which features pictures taken in water-challenged portions of Africa; and Barbara Goldberg, founder of Wells Bring Hope, which is involved with drilling wells and bringing clean water to impoverished rural villages in West Africa.
The company of dancers includes Molly Brictson, Sarandon Cassidy Vincent, Kelly Gill, Briana Masson, Jacqueline Nii, Robyn O’Dell and Eva Wieland.
Music is also a component of the show. Ariel Blumenthal’s Sonic Experience concept treats music as an immersive, 3-dimensional element in dialogue with space and architecture. Blumenthal will compose two pieces for the show: The first piece will combine a 3D pre-recorded score with live performance of sounds generated by water. Blumenthal will perform and process acoustic elements in real time, while synched to the recorded score distributed in the space. The second piece will use music as a personal accompaniment to a dancer, Using wireless technology, musical solo parts will be carried by the dancers as they move in the space, weaving dancing musical elements into a 3D pre-recorded score.
Music : Ariel Blumenthal. Film by Paul Linkogle. Lighting by Pablo Santiago-Brandwein. Costumes by Kelly Gill. Intern: Gino V.M. Garcia.
Paula Present, artistic director and choreographer, is an alumna of UCSD, where she received a BA in Dance and a BS in Biology. She has choreographed for stage, film, television and music video. She founded PTERO Dance Theatre in 2004. The company includes in its repertory several full-evening works, including “Candle in the Sun,” “At the Entrance of an Idea,” “The Frame of Mind,” and “Eating Rocks for Hunger.” It has also performed in shared evenings at the Alex Theatre, Ford Amphitheatre, Brand Library, Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Boston Court Theater. It has toured Mexico, San Diego, San Francisco and New Mexico. PTERO has received grants from City of Culver City, Puffin Foundation and Durfee Foundation and is the recipient of Lester Horton Awards.
“H2~Eau” continues what is becoming a PTERO tradition of performing work that transcends aimless aesthetics to embrace subject matter with compelling immediacy. As the Los Angeles Times stated, “Paula Present brings a welcome dose of social commentary to her work,…The process of transforming the news of the day into thoughtful committed dancing represents the kind of positive action that’s needed on the widest possible scale right now…..Present has a gift for creating memorable body sculpture and for shaping a sophisticated, contemporary movement vocabulary.”
“H2~Eau” will not only be about something important for the parched city of Los Angeles It will also be stunning.
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