The final performance in Chutzpah Festival’s acclaimed and celebrated Dance Series is birds sing a pretty song. (Chutzpah!PLUS), a performance piece integrating dance, live music and interactive/responsive film.
This exhilarating performance birds sing a pretty song, choreographed by Rebecca Margolick and co-created and directed with Maxx Berkowitz, seamlessly fuses dance, live music and interactive media. This final full-length work was created during a year-long Fellowship in New York City at the 14th St. Y Theatre with LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture and two Chutzpah! Festival Creation Residencies.
This full-length work revolves around two dancers, suspended in an environment where our hyper social nature reaches a point in which the lines of virtual and reality are obscured. The audience follows the dancer’s wanderings through a world manipulated and influenced by the "curators" (the three live musicians) and projected light structures that move and direct the world onstage. Throughout the piece they encounter an attempt at a relationship, fleeting glimpses of memory, and a fight for connection. Tied in with sound and video reactive visuals, the piece explores how surveillance and confinement through our digital and physical surroundings affect one’s sense of reality and self.
Addressing these questions through contemporary dance, interactive/responsive film and live music, all tied together by audio manipulation and seamless integration, birds sing a pretty song will celebrate its world premiere at the 14th Street Y Theatre in Manhattan and then head directly to Vancouver for its Canadian Premiere at Chutzpah!PLUS.
Performance Details:
May 13 @ 8pm
May 14 @ 7:30 pm
Norman Rothstein Theatre
950 West 41st Ave.
Tickets: Adult $29.50, Senior $25.50 Student $23.50 (+GST & service charges)
Tickets
Single tickets can be purchased online at chutzpahfestival.com, by phone at the Chutzpah! Box Office: 604-257-5145 or Tickets Tonight: 604-684-2787. Tickets are also available in-person at the on-site Chutzpah! Box Office at the Jewish Community Centre Reception Desk, 950 West 41st Avenue, just 2 blocks west of the Oakridge Skytrain Station
