photo: Scott Pakudaitis
photo: Megan Mayer
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Penelope Freeh & Megan Mayer
Penelope Freeh
We’ll Survive if We
Don’t Protect Ourselves
Featuring dancers Christine Maginnis,
Eddie Oroyan, Stephen Schroeder
and Penelope Freeh
Megan Mayer
We tried to throw the light
Featuring performing artists
Charles Campbell, Elliott Durko-Lynch,
Annie Enneking and surprise guests
An evening shared by two of the
Twin Cities’ most exciting and fresh
choreographic voices
June 17-19, 2010
Thurs. at 7:30pm,
Fri. and Sat. at 8pm
Tickets:$18
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Penelope Freeh’s 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival hit
We’ll Survive if We Don’t Protect Ourselves gets new life at the Southern Theater June 17-19, 2010. The James Sewell Ballet dancer and artistic associate navigates between safety and danger in an environment of instability for a quartet of dancers: Christine Maginnis, Eddie Oroyan, Stephen Schroeder and Freeh herself. Acts of daring in this tour de force reveal the human heart – opening, breaking, and breaking open. Musical selections include works by radical baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Icelandic band Skárren ekkert, Philip Glass and Radiohead.
We’ll Survive… was originally created specifically for the atrium of the Grain Belt Bottling House in Northeast Minneapolis. “There was a balcony from which the dancers hung, immediately setting up an element of danger,” said Freeh. “I look forward to extracting the essential elements of the piece, placing them in the Southern and rediscovering the work's next evolution.”
Reconfiguring electric moments from ‘60s foreign films by way of
The Lawrence Welk Show with her trademark wry humor,
Mayer skillfully mixes familial intimacy onstage with technical, covert elements traditionally found offstage. Featuring a dynamic lineup of performing artists including Charles Campbell, Elliott Durko-Lynch, Annie Enneking, as well a bevy of surprise guests,
We tried to throw the light incorporates a keen eye for detail and the sensibility that less is more. Mayer co-designed video projection elements with video artist Kevin Obsatz to provide another visual layer that complements the architecture of the Southern. A nostalgic soundtrack provides tone and texture and includes recorded performances by Arthur Lyman, Bessie Banks, Herb Alpert, Jackie Wilson, Del Shannon, Pierre Barouh and selections from a 1970s pizza parlor jukebox.
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