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Zirk Ubu: Adrift
8:00 p.m.
November 19 - 21, 2009
7:00 p.m.
November 22, 2009
Sushi Performance and Visual Art
390 11th Avenue, San Diego CA 92101
$20 General Public, $15 Members & Students, Pay What You Can (November
19 only)
Featuring UC San Diego Professors
Richard Cohen (Literature),
Nancy Caciola (History), and
Liam Clancy
(Dance), Sushi Performance and Visual Art will present
Zirk Ubu’s Adrift
on November 19-22, 2009. Part circus and part mystery cult, Zirk Ubu
brings together a visionary amalgam of performance genres. The diverse,
eleven-member collective embraces skills ranging from aerials and
acrobatics, to masking, puppetry, and object improvisation, as well as
video and performance art. These elements kaleidoscopically recombine
into tableaux that are, by turns, sensual, absurdist, and surreal. The
final result is a theater of urban inversion, where the possible and the
unimaginable dance together in the night air.
It has been said of the Zirk Ubu experience that, you go home a
little more oddly alive than when you came. (Award-winning poet
Thomas Lux, in The San Diego Reader.) The troupe likewise was honored as
San Diego’s Best Weird Circus Folk by San Diego CityBeat:
Whatever the context of the performance, when it comes to Zirk Ubu, it’s
safe to say it will be strange, deranged and wildly and weirdly
entertaining.
With Adrift, the group has moved in a novel direction, joining
forces with contemporary choreographer and UCSD professor of dance Liam
Clancy. Zirk Ubu invited Professor Clancy to direct the show in order to
bring a new performative perspective to the group. The title Adrift
is a play on the theme of Zen vagabondage and of welcoming the
precarious into one’s life. It plays with the idea of being
unmoored, of letting go and allowing yourself be swept away by forces
outside your control, says the director. Adds Zirk Ubu cast member
Richard Cohen, paraphrasing Lao Tzu, When you realize there is
nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Zirk Ubu's world
is one of frenetic tranquility; their new show drifts, haphazard,
through the circus of everyday life.
Zirk Ubu is honored to have Adrift produced by Sushi
Performance and Visual Art. Founded in 1980, Sushi is a San Diego-based
nonprofit multi-disciplinary presenting organization, which cultivates
alternative voices in the contemporary arts. Contact Sushi at
http://sushiart.org/, (619) 235-8466.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at:
http://www.inticketing.com/events/58735/ADRIFT
Further information is available at zirkubu.com. Or contact
zirkubu@gmail.com, (619) 663-9475.
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