With a wizardry all its own, internationally
renowned modern acrobatic dance company Diavolo
Dance Theater incorporates thrilling stunts with incredible interactive
props in its one-of-a-kind performances at Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place
on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 8 & 9, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Under Artistic Director
Jacques Heim, Diavolo’s widely
acclaimed dancers, gymnasts, athletes, and actors deliver a magnificent visual
experience, exciting audiences with one powerful image after another. By
employing oversized, surrealistic sets and props, Diavolo creates a sense of
daring that juxtaposes human fragility and survival – and accomplishes its
metaphors of the challenges of relationships, the absurdities of life, and the
struggle to maintain our humanity in the shadow of an increasingly
technological world. Audiences thrilled by Momix and Pilobolus
will be blown away by Diavolo.
In its October 8 & 9 performances, Diavolo
performs two, large scale works. Transit Space explores themes of feeling lost, finding a
sense of purpose, and coming together. Influenced by the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, Transit Space
uses skateboard ramps as set pieces to represent an urban environment with
ever-shifting physical and emotional spaces.
In Trajectoire, a visceral and emotional journey through the
ebb and flow of the human experience is on display. As the performers struggle
to find their balance on a voyage of destiny and destination, Trajectoire shows
the transcendence of the human soul against all odds.
Diavolo’s members are an incredibly diverse
group of performers – but above all, they are teammates. Under the guidance of
Artistic Director Jacques Heim, they collaboratively develop works on massive sets
and everyday structures. Heim’s childhood struggles and his journeys as a
French-Jewish man shape his thematic choices within urban landscapes. Heim
strives to propel the evolution of dance and entertainment through Diavolo, and
to further integrate the arts into mainstream America. The company’s works
explore the space between reality and imagination to create thrilling and
abstract narratives about the human condition. They investigate the latent
absurdities of contemporary human life while seeking to re-contextualize those
absurdities through the body, exploring the influences of the environment,
possessions and relationships.
Diavolo Dance
Theatre’s Asheville
performance is made possible with support from The Art Fryar Charitable Trust;
and by Performance Sponsors Nancy Houha & William Hilson, and by Mainstage Dance
Series Sponsors Hedy Fischer & Rancy Shull, Tina & John McGuire, Ronna
& Rob Resnick, BMW of Asheville, and Diamond Brand Outdoors; with
additional support from Media Sponsors WNC
magazine and WCQS 88.1FM.
The new entrance for the Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place
is marked by the location of the theatre’s new marquee between 12 and 14
Biltmore Avenue. Patrons enter the theatre through the breezeway between Marble
Slab Creamery and Circle in the Square restaurants, and into a large interior
courtyard for Pack Place with multiple glass doors to the theatre’s lower lobby
and new box office. The intimate theatre seats
just over 500 and boasts exceptional acoustics and sightlines, making it the
premier performance space in all of Western North Carolina. The Mainstage
Series is supported by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a state
agency. The Mainstage Series 2013/2014 Season Sponsors are the Asheville Scene, Blue Moon Water, Creative Energy, Laurey’s Catering and
Gourmet-to-go, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Renaissance Asheville
Hotel. To obtain more information on the Mainstage
Series or to purchase tickets, call the theatre’s box office at (828) 257-4530
or visit www.dwtheatre.com.
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