[Capdist-announce] REMINDER! Poor Dog Group: Dionysia | this Fri. 11/11 + Sat. 11/12 | EMPAC, Troy, NY

[jason steven murphy]

Don't miss Poor Dog Group's Dionysia this Friday 11/11 + Saturday 11/12 at EMPAC in Troy, NY!

Some previews:

http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/ancient-themes-modern-technology-combine-with-dionysia-at-empac/19110/
http://troyrecord.com/articles/2011/11/10/entertainment/doc4ebb3b0c79370219208300.txt
http://berkshireonstage.com/2011/11/01/ancient-greek-satyr-play-dionysia-reinvented-by-l-a-s-poor-dog-group-at-empac/

And some video clips:
 
http://vimeo.com/28789317

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http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/quote/poordog/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190558231024607
PERFORMANCE
Poor Dog Group: Dionysia
Friday + Saturday, November 11 + 12, 8 PM
EMPAC Theater
Troy, NY
$18 general admission / $13 students and seniors

Dionysia delves into the behavior of the satyrs, the wild and badly behaved companions of Dionysus, god of wine and theater

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Half man and half horse, the wild and badly behaved satyrs were legendary companions of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theater. Poor Dog Group brings together ancient satyr drama, imagery, and lore to reinvent the term ?satyr play.?

Based on fragments of satyr plays found at Oxyrynchus?many by Euripides?and imagery on ancient clay pots, Dionysia delves into the ritualistic, unstable, and sometimes hilarious behavior of satyrs. Discarding the common Dionysian clich? of lust and drunken revels, these satyrs reach ecstatic heights just through knowing the omnipotence of Dionysus.

Dionysia retells the myth of Thyestes and Atreus, exposing the social and sexual politics of the late fifth century BC, an unstable time when law and natural order often reversed. The satyrs invade with their full-blown physical expression of the bestial qualities inherent in contemporary life, channeling forgotten rites and revealing a world both barbaric and beautiful.

Evelyn?s Caf? will open at 7 PM with a full menu of meals, snacks, and beverages as well as a selection of wines. Service continues after the performance. Parking is available in the Rensselaer parking lot on College Avenue.

Additional event information can be found on the EMPAC website: http://empac.rpi.edu/. Questions? Call the EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921.

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Poor Dog Group is a new Los Angeles-based collective of like-minded performance and media artists committed to nurturing a distinctive aesthetic through adventurous collaboration. Their mission is to develop original theatrical expression through the creation of new work and radical reexaminations of existing texts; to redefine, educate and expand perceptions of performance and theatrical form; to have an accessibility for a new audience; to use experimental methods of the body, text, and technology; to craft new American theater; and to develop the cultivation of a limitless and periodic space. 

+ Poor Dog Group's site: http://www.poordoggroup.com/
+ some context on satyrs: http://didaskalia.net/issues/8/6/

Dionysia was commissioned and originally performed at The Getty Villa Lab with additional support from UCLA.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology ? offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, research, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921