Up Next: Diavolo
Saturday, May 19, 2012, 8:00p
Diavolo reinvents dance, re-imagines theater, and redefines thrills. Diavolo is comprised of dancers, gymnasts and actors under the creative directorship of Jacques Heim, who together create large-scale interdisciplinary performances examining the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environment. Diavolo takes movement, athletics, and daring to the extreme, creating abstract narratives through surreal tableaux in which inspiration thrives. The sets created are outrageous and surrealistic and form an intrinsic part of each piece of work. Everyday items such as doors, chairs and stairways provide the back-drop for dramatic movement – leaping, flying, twirling – that creates metaphors for the challenge of relationships, the absurdities of life and the struggle to maintain our humanity in an increasingly technological world. Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
