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Premiering at Cinquième Salle:
Roadkill
Only five performances!
February 10 to 13, 2010
It’s night-time, outside . .
. A couple, a breakdown, an intruder. A public phone
that’s out of order and the arid landscape of the Australian
Outback. The car radio masks the sounds of the bush.
Who’s this stranger who’s mysteriously emerged to
offer his help?
Reality?
Hallucinations?
The imagination gets carried away.
The scenes unfold like in a dream,
creating
an image of what actually, or possibly, happened.
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Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts presents
Splintergroup, an Australian contemporary dance
company that’s making waves on the international scene.
Visiting Montréal for the first time, Splintergroup will be
performing
Roadkill,a choreography
that’s part thriller, part road movie. Created for the Dance
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London in 2007,
Roadkill was the third and last
show in a section on up-and-coming Australian talent. A journey
into agoraphobia and the desolation of the Australian outback,
Roadkill literally plunges
audiences into the minds of the three characters. The work explores
their fears and twisted perceptions of the landscape and its
dangers. Mixed in with their anxieties are urban myths, the
disappearance of backpackers, thirst, love, distrust and the harsh
solitude of the bush.
Roadkill is a terrifying journey
into the world of a couple whose car breaks down in the middle of
nowhere, and who discover that isolation is not their biggest
threat ...
Roadkill is an intensely
physical piece where the dancers take obvious risks:
“Most intriguing is the creators’ ability to
manipulate time and space, shifting the audience expectations and
experience of each scene as it unfolds ... Cleverly applied
theatrical techniques shift the work from the mundane to the
surreal.” (
The Australian)
“Roadkill proved to be a tense, almost
cinematic piece of dance-theatre, partly thriller, partly a study
of the destabilizing effects of isolation ... The dancers are
terrific movers, speedy, strong and fearless.”
(
Ballet.co.uk)
Co-produced by Splintergroup, Brisbane Powerhouse and Dancenorth,
Roadkill was created by
choreographers/dancers
Gavin Webber,
Grayson Millwood and
Sarah-Jayne
Howard, a trio of artists who, following successful
careers in Europe, found themselves back home in Australia. All
three were members of the
Meryl Tankard Australian Dance
Theatre company.
Gavin Webber danced with
the Belgian company
Ultima Vez, directed by
Wim Vandekeybus, and has been
Artistic Director of Splintergroup since 2005.
Grayson
Millwood also worked in Belgium , with
Christine
de Smedt of
Les Ballets C de la B,
Benoît Lachambre and other renowned
choreographers. In 1999, he moved to Berlin to join the famous
Sacha Waltz and Guests company.
Sarah-Jayne Howard has graced stages in North
America, Europe and Japan . In 2002, she was one of three finalists
in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, a
prestigious international program for the most promising artists.
A must-see: Splintergroup in a show combining skill and suspense,
created and danced by performers with few limits!
With its finger on the pulse of the artistic avant-garde,
Cinquième Salle presents original theatre, dance and
multimedia works from here and abroad. Also to be discovered this
season:
Boa Goa (Pigeons International),
EL12 (La
Otra Orilla) and
Billy Twinkle, Requiem for a Golden Boy
(Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes).
Roadkill will be performed at
Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts February 10 to 13, 2010,
at 8 p.m., with one matinee performance at 3 p.m., on Sunday,
February 13
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At Cinquème Salle,
Place des Arts
175 Sainte-Catherine Street West
For information and reservations:
Place des Arts box office
514 842-2112 or 1 866 842-2112
www.laplacedesarts.com
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Media relations:
Communications Papineau-Couture
Julie Delorme 514.842.3851
juliedelorme@papineau-couture.com
cinquiemesalle.com
