SHELTER: Last Year’s Cincy Fringe Award Winners Team Up

Trapped underground, a young couple discovers survival is more than what you escape.

Actors Mac Blais & Alex Roberts with Pones Inc. dancers. Photos by Jillian Beach.

A theatre/dance mashup, “Shelter” is a collaboration between Pones Inc. (Traffick 2014 Cincy Fringe Full Frontal and Producer’s Pick, as well as League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT)’s Fringe Favorite) and Queen City Flash (Slut Shaming 2014 Cincy Fringe Artists’ Pick). At the end of the world, a teenage couple seek refuge in a backyard fallout shelter. As lights flicker and sirens blare, their internment reveals the cracks between them and their reliance on each other. They soon learn that survival isn’t what you escape, but what you bring with you. Pones Inc dancers create the world of the shelter, under the direction of Kim Popa, as Xavier actors Mac Blais and Alex Roberts bring writer Trey Tatum’s script to life. Directed by Bridget Leak and including original music by local composer Galen Tipton, this piece is a true collaboration between local artists and art forms.

Performances will take place at Gabriel’s Corner (1425 Sycamore St, Cincinnati, OH 45202)

• Thursday, May 28th @ 9:00PM
• Saturday May 30th @ 4:25PM
• Sunday, May 31st @ 4:25PM
• Monday, June 1st @ 6:30PM
• Thursday, June 4th @ 9:00PM

Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.cincyfringe.com/performance/shelter-2/

Pones Inc. provides artistic opportunities for community growth by creating engaging new ways for audiences to experience dance. Founded in 2008, Pones Inc. has collaborated with over 200 artists and 100 art and service organizations. The company creates site-specific performances through a fusion of movement and dance with other art forms. Pones Inc. performers use their bodies to speak their minds and uses its signature pedestrian-inspired movement to spark collaboration, connection, and community.  Pones Inc. believes that art creates powerful change.

Queen City Flash is a new theater company dedicated to open access to the arts and expanding audiences’ sense of theatricality by untethering the arts from physical space, prohibitive costs and traditional notions. Through flash mob-style theater, artists and communities combine to transform environments and unite over stories, picnics and sunsets.