Upcoming Performances & Events:
Dance Koester Dance 2008
Dance Koester Dance: An evening of new and past works by dancer/choreographer Stephen Koester, September 4, 5, 6th, 2008 at 7:30pm the Rose Wagner Black Box; 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students available at the door or through ArtTix at 801-355-ARTS or www.arttix.org
One of Utah’s best, Koester is known for his choreographic athleticism, dynamic power, innovation and sensitivity. His richly complex movement vocabulary explores the human condition in all its multi-faceted parts, honestly revealing the person behind the steps. His work can be haunting, hypnotizing, hair-raising, prankish, surprising, silly, and just a lot of fun. With three world premieres including the dramatic Who We Are?, the return of his popular This Ain’t No Tango, and Koester himself dancing along with the cream of Salt Lake’s professional dancers, be prepared to be moved.
Tristan Shone - Proving Ground Guest Artist 2008
September 13th - 8pm; September 14th - 2pm and 8pm
Rose Wagner Black Box; 138 West 300 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets: $15 general, $10 students available at the door or through ArtTix at 801-355-ARTS or www.arttix.org
Salt Lake’s most cutting-edge contemporary performance showcase is back. Local and guest artists working in all disciplines of performance will show you anything but the standard fare. Get your ears ready for industrial droning machines, your eyes prepped for physicality, and your pockets full of “Jason Dollars” because your going to have a chance to throw all the money you don’t have around. Oh yeah...and we’re gonna laugh at celebrities, because in times of economic downfall and high gas prices, we could all use a belly laugh at someone else’s expense.
Enter Achilles
Enter Achilles (DV8 Physical Theater 1995): DTC’s Annual Flick Fundraiser is proud to present a one-night screening of DV8’s critically acclaimed Enter Achilles (45 min) on Tuesday, December 2nd RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17th at 7:00 pm, Tower Theater, Salt Lake City. Tickets $12 available at the door. Join DTC for a great film and a great cause - us!
DV8's Enter Achilles looks beyond the issues of sexuality to the fundamental question of what constitutes masculinity. Why do men police each others' behavior, ever-ready to detect and eliminate unmanly activity, be it through ridicule, intimidation and/or threat? Why should non-conformity produce so much abhorrence and fear?
"In men's silence there is always the possibility of violence, infecting men's social relationships with an element of wariness. Under such conditions, what men will not allow in themselves they must deny in others." Rutherford Men's Silences
The straightjacket of masculinity defines itself in "don'ts": don't walk like that, don't talk like that, don't wear particular clothes or colours, don't show certain feelings. It's not that men don't express feelings — it's just that the feelings they show are often not the ones they actually feel.
Is it a problem? Or is all this just a series of gross generalizations?
Questioning the boundaries between the personal and the stereotypical, DV8 place eight men in a pub for a night and play the thin line between reality and fantasy — and ask you to tell the difference.
Men have historically oppressed women, but how oppressive have they been to themselves and one another?
