[Capdist-announce] EMPAC: BalletLab | 09/20-22 @ 8 pm | RPI Playhouse, Troy, NY

[jason steven murphy]

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EMPAC

"Amplification"  |   BalletLab  (Australia)

8PM, Thursday - Saturday, September 20 -  22

RPI Playhouse
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York

In "Amplification", Australia’s foremost contemporary dance company  
collides fierce dancing, driving music and unsettling imagery for an  
exhilarating and engaging performance. Choreographer Phillip Adams’  
work pushes against human physical and mental limits with both dark  
humor and morbid fascination.  Taking car accidents as the starting  
point, "Amplification" magnifies the moment of impact -- 1.6 seconds  
of frozen time -- alternating between highly charged, skidding  
movement and the cold, clinical atmosphere of an emergency ward.   
Featuring sensational dancers, live turntable composition and a lab- 
like visual design, Amplification refracts a world of ritual, burial,  
and betrayal.

"A raw and powerful work... Amplification is not for the faint- 
hearted or the prudish."  - Jane Howard, Melbourne Herald Sun

Hailing from Melbourne, BalletLab is regarded as one of the most  
inventive experimental dance companies working in Australia today.  
Combining densely layered, technical dancing with installation, sound  
and set collaborations, Artistic Director Phillip Adams has created a  
significant body of work that is sophisticated, physically  
idiosyncratic and aesthetically unique.  For more information on  
BalletLab, please visit http://www.balletlab.com/.

This event is free and open to the public.  Reservations are  
recommended.  To make a reservation, please call 518.276.3921 or go  
to http://www.empac.rpi.edu/.

Parking is available on 15th Street and in the Visitors Lot (directly  
across from the Playhouse on 15th Street). There will be signs to  
direct you to the event.

Additional information on this performance may be found on the EMPAC  
website, http://www.empac.rpi.edu/.

Questions? Call the EMPAC Event Hotline: 518.276.3921.

+++ And don't forget about The Light Surgeons' presentation of "True  
Fictions: New Adventure In Folklore" this Friday (09/14) at 8 pm in  
the Rensselaer Armory!