REDCAT (Venue Partner)
631 W 2nd St
213-237-2800
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Rosanna Gamson
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Mar 18, 2010 – Mar 27, 2010
Thursdays–Saturdays (8:30pm)
Sundays (3pm)
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- Price
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$25
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Rosanna Gamson has been developing the stylistic choices in Tov for five years now, and the world premiere promises a dance-theatre work layered with deeply personal choreographic stories and richly dramatic tableaux. To that remarkable mix, add the elegantly ritualistic vocal score by members of Polish theater group Stowarzyszenie Teatralne CHOREA. With a cast of 17 performers, this is Gamson at her biggest and poetically boldest.
Allen Moon, Flavorpill
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Tov
World premiere
Gamson has a purpose beyond herself, a choreographic design that supports her humanistic worldview.” LA Weekly
“A distinctive magic-carpet ride.” LA Weekly
Deftly weaving together intense physical movement, spoken word, vocal music, and the “theater laboratory” ensemble techniques originated by Jerzy Grotowski, Rosanna Gamson stages a profusely evocative dance drama around the story of the tarpan—an extinct species of Eurasian wild horse that was genetically “reassembled” in the 1930s through back-breeding of domestic horses. The Los Angeles choreographer braids this allegory of regeneration with reflections on the history of her own Polish-Jewish ancestors, horse traders from Szczecin, and the fate of Polish Jewry. Tov takes its title from “Gamzu l’tovah” (“This too is for the good”), a favorite saying of one of Gamson’s forebears, Talmudic scholar Nachum ish Gamzu, who found God’s hand even in tragedy. The full-evening work features a cast of eight American and Polish performers, with text spoken and sung in Hebrew, Polish, English and German.
