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This Week in Theatre: Identity Crisis!
From the moment we woke up, something was different. Our fingers delicately tip-toed across our bedside table; we nimbly caressed our oddly rhythmic alarm into silence. Gone was our everyday stumbling stupor as we arose from the bed like a bird on a spring. ‘Twas replaced with physical ease – how nice – as we spun and we twirled, dipping and diving, shuffling gracefully to our morning…pee. (Ahhh.)
This is no week in theatre, dear readers, for there are no, none, zip-o-la professional theatre productions opening in town this week. Instead, this is a week of dance. (There’s obviously plenty of theatre still running from last weekend – for all that info, see last week’s TWIT.) Dance! We say, as we thrust our arms into the air, embracing the beauty of bodies in motion. And now, read! We say, to get the skinny on this week’s movement happenings.
The big show that everyone’s talking about is Dialogues from Austin’s brand-spankin’ new American Repertory Ensemble. Emphasizing the collaboration between dance and movement, and boasting the talents of dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet and Atlanta Ballet, this seems likely to kick some serious ass. New choreography, time-honored classics, and the Tosca String Quartet – what more do you want? Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, McCullough Theatre on UT Campus. Tickets and info here. (Read our interview with ARE here.)
For more dance, and a little tid-bit of theatre, read on.
Want something a little more…out there? Try Improvisational Movement Project. IMP is the only Austin dance company crazy enough to champion “choreography in the moment”, which in our book certainly makes them brave little souls. See them make it up – on the spot – like Who’s Line Is It Anyway? without Drew Carey, dialogue, or comedy…just dance. Friday and Saturday this weekend at 8pm, running Thursday through Saturday next week at the Blue Theater. Tickets and info here.
Last but not least, this really isn't an opening, per se, as it's just a staged reading. But this Sunday the VORTEX (whose Summer Youth production opens tonight) starts its Living Room Series of one-night-only, casual play readings. Rubber Repertory kicks off the series with A Thought in Three Parts by Wallace Shawn. Directed by Josh Meyer, Matt Hislope and Carlos Treviño, it's described as "an amazing perverse piece of theatre." Get the inside skinny now, so you'll be the one in the know when Rubber Rep premieres this bad boy next Spring. This Sunday, 1pm, FREE.
Also for you theatre folk, check out our reviews of Radio :30 at Hyde Park Theatre, Vaudeville Vanya from St Idiot Collective and The Play About the Baby from Coda Project -- all running this week!
