Apr 02Apr 17, 2024
Crystal Pite, Jonathon Young, KIDD PIVOT
Assembly Hall
CRYSTAL PITE, WITH THE DISCIPLINE ACQUIRED FROM WILLIAM FORSYTHE, HAS BROUGHT THE DRAMATIC ART OF JONATHON YOUNG INTO THE REALM OF DANCE IN AN EMINENTLY HUMAN EXPERIENCE THAT WILL LEAVE THE AUDIENCE IN A STATE OF SHOCK.
With the worldwide success of Betroffenheit and Revisor, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young set new codes for dance-theater. In Assembly Hall, the two artists from Canada have now developed language of ever greater incisiveness, as movement and speech reciprocate challenges, display mutual attraction, and waltz together as a blissfully split personality. Here we are in an assembly hall, one used for sport or meetings, in a desire to be together.
Yet the somewhat old-fashioned venue also expresses the gradual loosening of social ties. Here is an assembly torn apart yet joined in a common purpose, i.e. to embody medieval heroes, doing so every year. Little by little each one is seen betraying reality, indulging in fantasies that are the stuff of legend. Then, emerging from the magnificent chiaroscuro of painters from times past, is a fascinating contemplation of our need to form a community, whether in a local assembly hall or at the theater.
Overtitled in French
Kidd Pivot
Créé par
Crystal Pite, Jonathon Young
KIDD PIVOT
Original work Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young Choregraphy & direction Crystal Pite music composition & sound Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani, Meg Roe Scenography Jay Gower Taylor Image & video Cybèle Young Lighting Tom Visser Costumes Nancy Bryant Assistant Éric Beauchesne
With Brandon Alley, Livona Ellis, Rakeem Hardy, Greg Lau, Doug Letheren, Rena Narumi, Ella Rothschild, Renee Sigouin
PRODUCTION Kidd Pivot. Kidd Pivot receives support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the City of Vancouver. Kidd Pivot receives assistance from the BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of their projects.
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