 | Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA)
Poetics: A Ballet Brut
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There they are hanging around in front of the stage curtain, sipping their coffee, casting knowing glances at each other, studying the audience, crossing their arms. Snide looks, bad moods, flirtatious, close to tears… the performers from the Nature Theater of Oklahoma give us enough time to get to know them. At least it would seem so. For anyone who saw this New York off-off-off Broadway ensemble in their first show “No Dice” in a German-speaking country at the last steirischer herbst knows that this presumption is wrong. Directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska play with simplicity; – but simple they are not.
Suddenly, all the supposedly banal gestures and facial expressions piece together to create first a brilliant solo, then a group choreography. In the space of a moment, “Poetics” turns into a fast-paced dance. A tour de force, that builds up and up. And up.
The piece by this young group of performers with big hearts, big personalities and almost no formal dance training focuses on everyday patterns of movement, linking them together in less than an hour to create a show that needs more space than the whole of the auditorium. Intimate moments and theatrical passion alternate as new spaces and new characters appear. A colossal ode to the liberating power of simplicity in the truly classical sense: after all, the constitutive key concepts of imitation, harmony, rhythm, fear, pity and spectacle are based on nothing less than Aristotle’s “Poetics”.
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Poetics: A Ballet Brut
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Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska (Nature Theater of Oklahoma) in an interview with CastYourArt »here
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Austrian Première
Fri 10/10, Sat 11/10 & Sun 12/10, 7.30 pm
65’
Talk following the third performance
16€ / 10€
Schauspielhaus Graz
Concept / Direction Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska
With Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Fletcher Liegerot & Zachary Oberzan
Sound design Kristin Worrall
Set design Peter Nigrini
Light design Tim Cryan
Production Kell Condon & Robbie Saenz de Viteri
Production Graz Celestine Kubelka
Assistants Kirsten Patent & Marie-Theres Schnattler
Technical direction Michael Beyermann
Light Sabine Wiesenbauer & Thomas Bernhard
Technical team tex2fun & Schauspielhaus Graz
Austrian Première
Fri 10/10, Sat 11/10 & Sun 12/10, 7.30 pm
65’
Talk following the third performance
16€ / 10€
Schauspielhaus GrazConcept / Direction Kelly Copper & Pavol Liska
With Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Fletcher Liegerot & Zachary Oberzan
Sound design Kristin Worrall
Set design Peter Nigrini
Light design Tim Cryan
Production Kell Condon & Robbie Saenz de Viteri
Production Graz Celestine Kubelka
Assistants Kirsten Patent & Marie-Theres Schnattler
Technical direction Michael Beyermann
Light Sabine Wiesenbauer & Thomas Bernhard
Technical team tex2fun & Schauspielhaus Graz
