Smash Up Show Returns To Montreal

Performances will take place from November 18 to 22, 2008 at 10PM.

Juxtaposing the movements of the live performers and the motion of animated projections, Smash Up create a tactile and mobile atmosphere, deconstructing the sublimely disquieting forces of desire, isolation, emotional and physical dislocation manifested between layers of image, gesture and sound. A collision of dance, animation and sound informed by the fluidity of the post-post modern age of repurposing -- where the remix, the sample, the mash-up, the hypertext, the cut-and-paste, the adaptation and the bricolage are the means by which we order (or disorder) our existence, Smash Up eviscerates the theatrical experience.

Smash Up is a series of short mixed-media works featuring animated environments from artists James Paterson and Amit Pitaru, original music mash-ups processed by Roger Tellier-Craig (godspeed you! black emperor; Fly Pan Am), choreography by Dana Gingras with dancers Sarah Doucet, Susan Elliott, Sonja Perreten and Shay Kuebler, all framed within an installation designed by Jonathan Inksetter and a lighting design by Marc Tetrault.

"The tug of war between the warm blooded dancer; scrolling animation and numbing roar of high decibel score was immediate...The dance highlight of the evening...an athletic encounter between Susan Elliott and the amazing Shay Kuebler. Playing a couple in the throes of a deep commitment, the two juxtaposed displays of precision, strength and scary speed with flashes of tenderness. The audience roar was spontaneous." - The Montreal Gazette -- www.centaurtheatre.com