BalletLab: Amplification

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.

Curated by Hélène Lesterlin.

Online reservations are are highly recommended.

Amplification is FREE and open to the public.

SCHEDULE:

DATES:	Thursday, September 20 thru Saturday, September 22, 2007
TIME:	8:00 PM
LOCATION:	Rensselaer Playhouse, Rensselaer Campus
RESERVATIONS:	» Make a reservation
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(Performance time — 60 minutes)

Download the Rensselaer campus map and make your way to the Rensselaer Playhouse. Parking is available in the Visitors Lot @ Mueller Center with access directly across the street from the Playhouse on 15th street (see map below). Look for the "EMPAC EVENT PARKING" signs. Please arrive early. Reservations not claimed @ the Playhouse by 7:45 will be released!

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Additional Information:

» http://www.balletlab.com/