(CINCINNATI) =DEAD CAN DANCE, Exhale Dance Tribe’s popular annual Halloween-themed show, returns to haunt the 2016-17 season with brand-new choreography by Founding Artistic Directors Missy Lay Zimmer and Andrew Hubbard. Performances will take place at the Aronoff Center for the Arts’ Jarson-Kaplan Theater on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Zimmer and Hubbard (who are joined this season by resident choreographers Katie Farry and Jennifer Porteous-Rutherford) deliver eclectic, exciting choreography, melding elements of contemporary dance with their own idiosyncratic style. Aerial silks acrobatics performed while suspended from fabric hanging from the ceiling will play a role in the production, as aerialist Holly Price performs alongside the all-female Tribe to take DEAD CAN DANCE up to the rafters.
Conjuring the spirit of longing, the show begins with Price falling from the land of the living into land of the dead, a purgatory populated by mesmerizing ghosts who dance through their days. We follow her as she experiences the movement of the underworld, a place forever trapped in the stages of grief.
“DEAD CAN DANCE trails a lonely soul, an anchor for the audience to follow throughout the production,” says Co-Founding Artistic Director Andrew Hubbard. “She descends through the five stages of grief as she mourns her old life and discovers the complexities of her afterlife. The ghosts she encounters in this purgatory are perpetually searching for acceptance and eternal rest. Hanging from the thread of life and unable to release the red that once flowed through her veins, this lonely soul battles her innate longing to be born again and again and again.”
Discover this mesmerizing new version of a Cincinnati favorite this Halloween. Tickets are $32.25 and can be purchased now at www.cincinnatiarts.org/events/detail/dead-can-dance. Feel free to come in costume!
This production is supported in part by a grant from the Greater CincinnatiFoundation Aronoff Center Rental Subsidy Fund.
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