SPINE LIVE!

May 13,15, & 19 at 8pm SPINE will be performing Stupid (an excerpt) as part of The Comedy In Dance Festival at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg. A one-woman performance showcasing the physical comedy stylings of Kristen Revier. Self-Flagellation in all of its masochistic glory.

The Comedy in Dance Festival May 12-16 & 19-23, 2010. 8pm A new annual performance series featuring over 20 curated works, including Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's full-length premiere Geegahdongpeoria

The festival runs for a full ten days and includes work with a comic bent by: Phil Lanzetta/Vantage, The LeRoy Sisters, Amy Larimer, alexanDance Performance, cakeface, The Donovan Ensemble, Rhea Daniels, SPINE, Alisa Fendley Dance, Janessa Olsen/equal and opposite, Two-Hander, New Extreme Dance Explosions Awesomes, Billy Schultz, Cirque This, Jacobs Campbell Dance, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Leanne Schmidt and Company, Ashley Meeder Movement Project,, Adrian Jevicki/Movementpants Dance.

Inspired by the medieval dancing plagues, Schmantze Theatre's Geegahdongpeoria, included in the festival on on May 13-15, & 20-23, follows a landmark day-in-the-life of a fictitious people compelled to dance. This performance conjures up one of humanity’s lost tribes…lost with good reason. This tiny nation of likeable human dodo birds swaggers blithely through fable and folk dance, while tromping over atavistic technologies and cornball Satan-worship. Geegahdongpeoria is performed by Abby Bender, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Sara K. Edwards, Katie Federowicz, Rebecca Frank, Charles Gushue, Sarah Lannon, Lyz Merida, Reshma Patel, Brandon Polanco, Natasha Ross, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey and Charmian Wells. Story and choreography by Abby Bender and co. Script by Jeremy Wilson. Songs and video by Derek Breen, Jeremy Wilson, and Rebecca Frank

Visit Triskelion Arts for a detailed festival schedule. Tickets: $15 general admission/$12 students Reservations strongly recommended: info@triskelionarts.org or 718-599-3577

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.