PERFORMANCES
VORTEX
Fridays and Saturdays, August 19, 20, 26, 27, 2011
Conceived, Directed, and Music by Papo Colo
Performed by Mauricio Leyton*, Ernesto Nodal, Elinor Thompson
Presented by Trickster Theater
* This actor appears courtesy of the Actor’s Equity Association
Trickster Theater Performances are free and open to the public.
“Theater is free, because art should be free” - Papo Colo, Artistic Director
Trickster Theater programs are free to the public thanks to generous support from the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation.
Exit Art's in-residence theater company, Trickster Theater, is pleased to premiere a new original work directed and conceived by Artistic Director Papo Colo.
Trickster Theater creates new works that reflect the diverse audiences and influences of New York City. Trickster’s mission is to produce experimental performance theater works that challenge the formal canon and expand the audience’s notion of contemporary theatre.
VORTEX is a view of the Americas via the lens of two iconic poets, Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman. Crisscrossing historical and geographical landscapes, wrapped in Pablo Casals’ Bach suites, Whitman and Neruda find the most supreme versions of themselves as they interconnect between English and Spanish, and North and South America in a dance-theatre conversation about where we’ve been as a continent. VORTEX attempts to re-imagine what modern Americana means: a stage that represents the complexity and diversity of contemporary America with a new use of poetry in a context of dramatic texts and extraordinary set design.
Escape the heat and enjoy these performances in Trickster Theater’s fully air conditioned space!
ABOUT TRICKSTER THEATER
Papo Colo founded Trickster Theater in 1998. Since its inception, an important aspect of the Trickster Theater is its role as a multilingual and multinational theater, creating theater as global and local as its audience. Trickster Theater investigates the American language and the relationship of different accents and tonalities. The theater has a history of bilingual productions that tackle issues of translation in the dramatic arts. Trickster has produced a range of shows including Praying Project, Wild Nights, Tropical Area, Cannon Dialogues, Confessions of the Face, Somehow, Still Life, and Distant Sex, which can be viewed on Exit Media and Trickster Theater's website.
To view a teaser for last year’s performance of Distant Sex, please click HERE.
EXIT ART AND TRICKSTER THEATER SUPPORT
Exit Art and Trickster Theater programming support provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation’s Good Neighbor Committee, Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn; and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.