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The Cultch presents
LOST ACTION
November 27 - December 1, 2007, 8 pm
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VANCOUVER -- Crystal Pite's
much-acclaimed Vancouver-based company Kidd
Pivot performs Lost Action at the
Vancouver East Cultural Centre Tuesday, November 27 to Saturday December 1, 2007
at 8 PM. Lost Action, Pite's most recent work, features
brilliant dancing by a 7-member troupe (including Pite herself) to an original
soundscape, performed live. Lost Action
was the winner of the Alcan Performing Arts
Award for Dance 2006.
Kidd Pivot -- a performance company that
creates work integrating original music, text, rich visual design, and a keen
sense of wit and invention -- is composed of Canadian choreographer-dancer
Crystal Pite and guests. In this case, her guests are Owen Belton (original music), Jonathan Ryder (lighting design), Linda Chow (costume design), and a stellar team
of dancers at the height of their powers: Eric
Beauchesne, Francine Liboiron,
Malcolm Low, Yannick Matthon, Anne Plamondon, and Victor Quijada.
Muscular and aggressive,
full of sheer athletic appeal, Lost
Action is an emotionally gripping look at love, loss, and dance - the
most ephemeral of art forms. On a blood-red battle zone of visceral images,
dancers succumb to danger as full tilt, full body, contemporary movement is
served with a surreal twist. Dancers sculpt space in real-time, working inside a
form that is constantly in a state of vanishing. Fuelled by the outstanding
abilities of these world-class performers, Lost
Action begins as an analysis of the articulated body, and unfolds to
reveal the human element at the centre of the work: the ephemeral body moved by
the potent heart.
"Lost Action makes a
serious and emotionally gripping statement about conflict. It does so through
brilliant dancing ... a major work of art ... another splendid success. Always,
Pite's strength is how she works her ideas physically, exploring them in kinetic
terms to make thrilling choreography."
Kaija Pepper, The
Dance Current, March 24-April 1, 2006
"The most important new work of the 2006 dance season
... was Crystal Pite's Alcan Performing Arts Award winning Lost Action. This
full-length piece for seven luminous dancers (including Pite herself) is bigger,
blacker and deeper than anything the choreographer has attempted to date for her
Vancouver-based company, Kidd Pivot."
Canada.com, December 30, 2006
"If life is fleeting, dance is even more ephemeral
... perhaps [this] is how this art achieves a kind of immortality ... the
treatment is so poetic and the theme so universal that Lost Action deserves to
endure."
Louise Phillips,
TheVancouverCourier.com, 29 March 2006
"... nothing that I witnessed during the recent
Winter Olympics came anywhere close to Lost Action in terms of surprise,
ambition, or sheer athletic appeal. If contemporary dance is a marginalized art
form in Canada today, it's only because works like this are not given the
exposure they deserve; once you've seen this troupe move, you might never watch
hockey again. Beauty and precision were ever-present-and hope, as well. If
humans can stage art this lovely, why shouldn't our lives be lovely
too?"
Alexander Varty, Straight.com,
March 30, 2006
Kidd Pivot will perform Lost Action November 27 - December 1 at 8 pm at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, located at 1895
Venables Street (at Victoria Drive). For more information, visit www.thecultch.com.
Tickets are
$25/$21 (PLUS SERVICE CHARGES) and are available through Ticketmaster at
604-280-3311 or visit www.ticketmaster.ca.
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