Anna Halprin / Anne Collod  

November 7, 2009

Saturday 7:30pm

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...aesthetic rigor, intense emotions, it speaks to everyone, nothing is missing.  - Le Monde

Parades & changes, replays is a full scale re-creation of the masterpiece Parades & Changes, a major 1965 work of American postmodern dance legend Anna Halprin. The provocative Parades & Changes, Halprin's first "collective creation" dynamited the codes dominating dance by exposing the process of performance: improvising around several "scores," dancers dress and undress, inventing gestures and vanishing naked in rolls of skin colored paper. This "ceremony of trust," as it was named by Halprin, seeks to utilize dance as a medium for being together: her prolific composition addresses the process, the place, the action, and the performer as both unique and corresponding entities.

Now, in collaboration with Halprin, French choreographer/performer Anne Collod seeks to reactivate the revolutionary piece with parades & changes, replays. With an exceptional team of contemporary American and European performers, parades & changes, replays examines the original message of collectiveness through a contemporary lens: in what way and to what extent does being together invented then and there, concern us now?