October 16,2011 at 5pm
*SPECIAL EVENT*
at Timken Hall, California College of the Arts
Kevin Killian and Karla Milosovich’s DANCE WORLD GYM
$10 entrance/no one turned away for lack of funds
It’s October 2001, right on the eve of the ancient Mayan curse, and TV host China Chow is about to debut her next big competition, Work of Feet:The Search for the Next Great Dancer. But then the curse falls hard on the dance world and dancers start forgetting their steps. Exempted: only those born in a trunk. Is this the end of reality TV, and of dance as we know it? Meanwhile an ambitious stage mother, Barbara Hershey pushes her
impressionable son into a ballet stardom he doesn’t want. What are those wisps of feathers growing on his shoulder blades?
From Wuppertal, Germany comes the Pina Bausch troupe, with their child sensation Peanut Bausch; from swinging London of the 1980s Michael Clark arrives to show everyone how it’s done; and from Hollywood aging dance and rollerskate legends Leslie Caron, Patrick Swayze and Olivia Newton-John make impossibly graceful entrances and then can’t remember what comes next.
Karla Milosevich and Kevin Killian, dance legends themselves, have written their fourth play for San Francisco Poets Theater. Let them drill into your heads the motto of Terpsichore: “In the dance world… anything goes.”
Featuring a huge cast of artists, writers, editors, poets, playwrights,
filmmakers, musicians, novelists, curators, designers and volunteers, and
one dancer, it’s DANCE WORLD GYM. E-I-E-I-O!
