Valerie Norman's VanDance troupe collaborates with Bruce Ornstein's Acting Workshop in "?," a full-length dance-theater piece that explores the realities of everyday life and performance.
Still, during the decades in which he ran the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he solicited works from a staggering array of composers — first and foremost John Cage, his life partner and the initial music director of the Cunningham troupe — and collaborated with dozens of other musicians.
ANTIGRAVITY This aerial dance troupe, which has collaborated with the likes of Franco Zeffirelli (in his "Turandot" at the Met) and Britney Spears, defies the force of gravity with its arsenal of uplifting contraptions, from bungee cords and trapezes to special "anti-gravity boots" that send its gymnast-dancers flying fifteen feet into the air.
For its end-of-season opera project, the early-music group collaborates with a troupe of singers and dancers to perform John Blow's masque, along with excerpts from Henry Purcell's "King Arthur" (which was recently performed at New York City Opera).
A comedy writer who trained with the Second City troupe in Chicago and who collaborates with her brother, David Sedaris (as the Talent Family they have written, among others, the satirical comedies "The Book of Liz" and "Incident at Kobbler's Knob"), Ms. Sedaris said she did not expect to be taken seriously as an actress.
"The Bay Area is a great place to test your material," said Jason Craig, co-founder of a New York troupe, Banana Bag & Bodice, which collaborated with the Shotgun Players of Berkeley on an erudite, esoteric, song-infused take on the Beowulf legend.
There they collaborated with El-Funoun dance troupe on a production called "6 Seconds in Ramallah".
For her newest piece, the troupe's artistic director, Surupa Sen, has collaborated with Chitrasena Dance Company of Sri Lanka, merging Odissi's sculptural sensuality with the more vigorous Sri Lankan style of Kandyan dance.
COMPAGNIE 111 AND PHIL SOLTANOFF A French dance troupe from Toulouse and a New York director collaborate on "Plan B,"a mixed-media production that sets dancers balancing and tilting on a topsy-turvy plane that they try to conquer with the aid of kung-fu fighting, bungee cords, Velcro suits and suction cups.
Tickets: $34 Â Â JACK ANDERSON COMPAGNIE 111 AND PHIL SOLTANOFF A French dance troupe from Toulouse and a New York director collaborate on "Plan B,"a mixed-media production that sets dancers balancing and tilting on a topsy-turvy plane that they try to conquer with the aid of kung-fu fighting, bungee cords, Velcro suits and suction cups.
Hacking The Human Body: Meet Daito Manabe.
