DIAVOLO
Jacques Heim, artistic director
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 19, 2012
Eisenhower Auditorium
Diavolo company members are dancers, gymnasts, actors, and athletes. First and foremost, though, they’re teammates. Jacques Heim, the French-born artistic director who founded the Los Angeles troupe in 1992, guides his ten performers in collaboratively developing work on oversized surrealistic sets and everyday structures. Diavolo explores isolation, fear, destiny, survival, faith, modernization, and danger in the shadow of a technological world. The company’s appearance at Penn State features the world premiere of Transit Space, a work inspired by skateboard culture that was co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts. The program also includes Fearful Symmetries, which starts and ends with a cube illuminating the parallel between mathematics and the human soul.
After the performance, DIAVOLO artists will have a discussion with audience members who choose to stay.
sponsor
Lynn Sidehamer Brown
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.
Creative Campus Project
THE SECRET LIFE OF PUBLIC SPACES
Experience a FESTIVAL OF CREATIVITY at the culminating events of an eighteen-month collaboration among DIAVOLO; Penn State’s Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Dance, and Engineering programs; and the Center for the Performing Arts!
All events, except for the April10 film, are free.
April 10
7:30 p.m. • Dogtown and Z Boys, the film about skateboarding that inspired DIAVOLO’s Transit Space
The State Theatre
General admission ticket $7 available at The State Theatre box office ($5 if you show your ticket to the April 19 DIAVOLO performance).
April 11
Noon • University Dance Company open rehearsal and meet-and-greet session
HUB-Robeson Center front patio
April 13
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Public Performance as Public Pedagogy: Collaborative Creative Resistance
Palmer Museum of Art piazza
6 p.m. • “Tiny” SLoPS, an event for children
7 p.m. • The Secret Life of Public Spaces Arboretum Performance
Two above at The Arboretum at Penn State
April 14
6 p.m. • “Tiny” SLoPS, an event for children
7 p.m. • The Secret Life of Public Spaces Arboretum Performance
The Arboretum at Penn State
April 18
Noon • Brown bag lunch with DIAVOLO Artistic Director Jacques Heim and his Transit Space design collaborators David Beaudry, Steve Connell, and Paul James Prendergast
Eisenhower Auditorium
April 20
Noon • The Secret Life of Public Spaces HUB-Robeson Performance
HUB-Robeson Center front patio
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