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For Immediate Release : THE DISPUTE by MARIVAUX
Eyeball Planet and The Judson
Memorial Church are delighted to announce the performance of Marivaux's
masterpiece: THE DISPUTE. It is a very rarely performed philosophical play
about the question of unfaithfulness—was it a man or a woman who instigated it
first. This production is done in a stunning, surrealistic and experimental
way.
The event will take place at the
Judson Memorial Church: 55 Washington Square South, NYC, 10012. From Wednesday
April 25th, to Sunday April 29th 2007, at 8pm (3 pm on
Sunday). Admission will be $10.00.
This production of THE DISPUTE is
co-sponsored by New York University, the French Department at NYU, Material for
the Arts of the City of New York, Eyeball Planet, and various patrons.
THE DISPUTE is a contemporary drama
that deals with the problem of narcissism, desire and sexual identity. It’s
about a Prince who interrogates nature to find out whether it was a man or a
woman who committed the original sin of unfaithfulness. This play explores
contemporary issues such as desire, self-obsession and the difficulty of the
relation between the sexes.
This is the second production of
Eyeball Planet, created in 2004 by director Anne Deneys-Tunney, who is a
permanent member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. THE DISPUTE is an
exploratory and experimental production which combines an eighteenth-century
English translation of Marivaux's play with contemporary music, modern dance
and movement. This extraordinary combination expresses what Blanchot referred
to as Marivaux’s extreme contemporaneity.
Anne Deneys-Tunney employs a new
technique of performance which articulates body and language in order to achieve
what she calls “automatic acting” or “dance with words”. The goal is to explore
new intersections via tensions, connections and disconnections between body and
words, space and desire, classical texts and contemporary avant-garde
practices.
THE DISPUTE manifests Eyeball
Planet’s aim to explore new links between various contemporary artistic media:
contemporary music, dance, drawing, video, sound installation and literature.
Its goal is to displace and play with scenic conventions and produce a multi-media
event through the collaboration of various contemporary avant-garde artists:
Dogbowl (rock music), Michael Shumacher (contemporary composer), Stephen Tunney
(set designer).
Cast: Mary Kuhns, Daniel Darwin, Elise Brumbach,
Dane Stalcup, Karen Santos Da Silva, Rebecca Grodner, Scott Sanders, Alexandra
Schinasi, Andrew Blousfield, Jenni Chiaramonte.
For further information please
contact: Alexandra
Schinasi
Tel:
(646) 706-3645
Email: alexandra.schinasi@gmail.com