Duo Theater presents Aszure Barton’s “A Traveling Show” April 10th- 12th, 2008
LADIES & GENTLEMAN ... Aszure Barton & Artists trot to the East Village to present an intimate spectacle, “A Traveling Show”, custom-made for the cozy and charming Duo Theater. Step right up, pass behind the curtain, please take your seats, nestle in, and experience our fantastical family!
“A Traveling Show” will be presented at Duo Theater, 62 East 4th Street . Performances Thursday April 10th through Saturday, April 12th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $20. Seating is limited for all performances. To purhcase tickets please click Smart Tix or call (212) 868-4444.
“It’s like the dance equivalent of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delight: full of sinful pleasures, ludicrous and haunting… Barton’s work is deliciously revealing… Like sex, it is urgent, embarrassing, raunchy, satisfying, complex—and a lot of fun if you can let go... And I’m hungry for more.” -- Santa Barbara Independent
Aszure Barton was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is the Artistic Director of Aszure Barton & Artists, and has been commissioned to create new works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fany-Yi Sheu, The National Ballet of Canada, Sydney Dance Company, American Ballet Theater II, The Juilliard School, Les Ballets jazz de Montréal, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, among others. She choreographed the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera starring Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Nellie Mackay, and Cyndi Lauper (a new translation by Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliott). Ms. Barton is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from across North America and overseas, and has choreographed numerous international film projects. She was recently designated a Paul D. Fleck Fellow at The Banff Centre, she is the Resident Choreographer for bjm_danse Montréal, and she has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center since 2005.
Aszure Barton & Artists is an organization dedicated to the growth of artists and production of contemporary dance performance. Since its founding in 2002, the company has developed its activities as an international contemporary dance project with its current home base in New York City. Ms. Barton has earned the distinguished reputation of producing striking choreography, and together with her intimate ensemble, she continues to develop critically acclaimed productions around the globe. Her works have recently toured to Europe, Brazil, Argentina, Asia, Africa, Canada, and the United States. http://www.aszureartists.com/
Aszure Barton & Artists would like to thank the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Lorton Arts Foundation for their continued support. The company is currently in residency at the BAC through April 27th.
“a rare instance of a dance that feels as if it were plucked straight from the choreographer’s extremely specific imagination and set, full- grown, onstage… full of surprise and humor, emotion and pain, expressed through a dance vocabulary that takes ballet technique and dismantles it to near-invisibility.” -- The New York Times
“The brilliant New York-based Barton produces delectable works that are quirky, deep, cheeky, and poignant. Her quicksilver, unpredictable movement always astonishes the eye.” -- Globe & Mail
LADIES & GENTLEMAN ... Aszure Barton & Artists trot to the East Village to present an intimate spectacle, “A Traveling Show”, custom-made for the cozy and charming Duo Theater. Step right up, pass behind the curtain, please take your seats, nestle in, and experience our fantastical family!
“A Traveling Show” will be presented at Duo Theater, 62 East 4th Street . Performances Thursday April 10th through Saturday, April 12th at 8:00pm. Tickets are $20. Seating is limited for all performances. To purhcase tickets please click Smart Tix or call (212) 868-4444.
“It’s like the dance equivalent of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delight: full of sinful pleasures, ludicrous and haunting… Barton’s work is deliciously revealing… Like sex, it is urgent, embarrassing, raunchy, satisfying, complex—and a lot of fun if you can let go... And I’m hungry for more.” -- Santa Barbara Independent
Aszure Barton was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is the Artistic Director of Aszure Barton & Artists, and has been commissioned to create new works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Fany-Yi Sheu, The National Ballet of Canada, Sydney Dance Company, American Ballet Theater II, The Juilliard School, Les Ballets jazz de Montréal, The Martha Graham Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, among others. She choreographed the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera starring Alan Cumming, Jim Dale, Nellie Mackay, and Cyndi Lauper (a new translation by Wallace Shawn, directed by Scott Elliott). Ms. Barton is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from across North America and overseas, and has choreographed numerous international film projects. She was recently designated a Paul D. Fleck Fellow at The Banff Centre, she is the Resident Choreographer for bjm_danse Montréal, and she has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center since 2005.
Aszure Barton & Artists is an organization dedicated to the growth of artists and production of contemporary dance performance. Since its founding in 2002, the company has developed its activities as an international contemporary dance project with its current home base in New York City. Ms. Barton has earned the distinguished reputation of producing striking choreography, and together with her intimate ensemble, she continues to develop critically acclaimed productions around the globe. Her works have recently toured to Europe, Brazil, Argentina, Asia, Africa, Canada, and the United States. http://www.aszureartists.com/
Aszure Barton & Artists would like to thank the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) and Lorton Arts Foundation for their continued support. The company is currently in residency at the BAC through April 27th.
“a rare instance of a dance that feels as if it were plucked straight from the choreographer’s extremely specific imagination and set, full- grown, onstage… full of surprise and humor, emotion and pain, expressed through a dance vocabulary that takes ballet technique and dismantles it to near-invisibility.” -- The New York Times
“The brilliant New York-based Barton produces delectable works that are quirky, deep, cheeky, and poignant. Her quicksilver, unpredictable movement always astonishes the eye.” -- Globe & Mail
