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Stage Door News
(TORONTO - May 16, 2012) The interdisciplinary performance work EXPRESS YOURSELF, created by Toronto-based theatre artists Sean O’Neill and Liz Peterson (Events in Real Time) in collaboration with choreographer Ame Henderson (Public Recordings), will make its US PREMIERE at the Incubator Arts Project in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery in New York on May 24, 2012, running through May 27.
The work, called a “deeply moving experiment in media and performance” by NOW Magazine in a four-star review, premiered at SummerWorks, Canada’s largest juried theatre festival, in August 2011 and won the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation.
Occupying the legendary theatre in St. Mark's Church, home to Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric theatre for more than 30 years, the Incubator Arts Project (IAP) emerged from Foreman's INCUBATOR residency program and launched its first full season of experimental performance works in 2010. The IAP is dedicated to supporting the production of innovative and challenging live performance by artists based in New York and abroad.
Weaving together experimental dance, personal confessions, synchronized video, and a pop sensibility, Express Yourself is a stylized depiction of a performance in progress. The work is framed by a virtuosic performance by Peterson, who navigates its ever-shifting boundaries with disarming vulnerability and humour.
Express Yourself marks the first collaboration between O'Neill, Peterson, and Henderson. Individually, their works have been performed across Canada, including at the Festival TransAmériques, the Images Festival, the Next Stage Festival and Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.
Showtimes and tickets are available via the Incubator Arts Project box office, accessible online at www.incubatorarts.org.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sean O’Neill and Liz Peterson formed the company Events in Real Time in 2010, dedicated to furthering the practice of experimental performance in Toronto. Individually, they have created work for the SummerWorks, Images, Toronto Fringe, Next Stage, Rhubarb, and Hatch festivals, and AGYU and InterAcess art galleries in Toronto. Express Yourself is their first collaboration. For more information, images, and video, visit www.eventsinrealtime.org.
Ame Henderson is the artistic director of Public Recordings and has created more than a dozen works that have been presented in Austria, France, The Netherlands, Croatia, Italy and across Canada, including /Dance/Songs/ (2006), relay (2010), and 300 Tapes (2011). She has developed work in residence in Toronto, Montreal, and Vienna. For more information on Henderson’s work, visit www.publicrecordings.org.
ABOUT THE INCUBATOR ARTS PROJECT
By offering a series of production programs that provide space, labor, technical assistance and administrative expertise, Incubator Arts Project supports the presentation of world premiere, contemporary work in the performing arts made by dance, music and theatre artists. Incubator Arts Project has been featured in American Theatre magazine, The New York Times, TIME OUT New York, The Village Voice, and The Brooklyn Rail and won a 2010 Obie grant. For more information, visit www.incubatorarts.org.
Tickets $18 General/$14 Students – Cash only at the door. Purchase in advance at incubatorarts.org, or call TheaterMania at 212-352-3101.
Reviewers and press are encouraged to attend all performances. Please contact Samara Naeymi at 212-420-1916 or samara@incubatorarts.org for tickets to performances and for further information. Production photos available upon request.
Incubator Arts Project inside St. Mark’s Church • 131 East 10th Street, at Second Avenue L to First or Third Avenue; R, W to Broadway/8th Street; 6 to Astor Place; N, Q, 4, 5 to Union Square.
Photo: Liz Peterson. ©2011 Laurie Kang.
2012-05-16
Toronto: SummerWorks hit “Express Yourself” has US premiere May 24 in New York