A trilogy of interdisciplinary live performance works by Pavel Zustiak | Palissimo Company, featuring dance, live music, video, and visual projection, presented in New York City by La MaMa (November 2010), Baryshnikov Arts Center (June 2011) and Performance Space 122 at Synod Hall, NYC (May 2012).
Pavel Zuštiak choreographs and directs a trilogy of live performances titled The Painted Bird. Loosely inspired by Jerzy Kosinski's novel set in war-time Eastern Europe in which a brilliantly painted bird is violently killed by its own flock for seeming an imposter, Zuštiak's project excavates the tale's themes of otherness, displacement, migration and transformation in three separate performance events in New York City. Zuštiak's signature approach of integrating multiple mediums with dance to create richly-layered, experiential artworks extends itself with The Painted Bird to a multinational creative process through creative residencies in Eastern Europe and the U.S., addressing the personal complexity yet universal emotional resonance of migration stories which reflect Kosinski's tale. All three works remain true to Zuštiak's history of creating works that juxtapose and inundate the senses with multiple production elements framing choreography that extends beyond the limits of the body, exploring the contradiction of individual will versus images of bodies moved around as by a larger force of fate. The project will eventually conclude with an online and published multimedia "diary" inspired by the performances, and will be available for touring in parts and as a whole: The Painted Bird Trilogy.
May 3 | Tickets $75 http://bit.ly/strangecargobenefit
OPENING NIGHT HOSPITALITY SPONSOR: VESELKA & VESELKA BOWERY
Host Committee Tom Birchard, Carrie Thompson, Bruce Schackman & Ed Sikov, Vallejo Gantner, and Board of Directors Josephine Dorado, Jeffrey Fracé, Mary Ellen Obias, David Roberts, Julio Tumbaco, Carleigh Welsh, and Garland Goodwin Wilson, and Artistic Director Pavel Zuštiak invite you to join us for a very special evening to benefit Palissimo and The Painted Bird Trilogy.
8PM: Opening Night Performance | 9PM: Opening Night Party
Including an Eastern European tasting menu, signature cocktails and wine, entertainment and more.
The Painted Bird, Part 3: Strange Cargo
In this capstone of the acclaimed The Painted Bird trilogy, choreographer Pavel Zuštiak collaborates with composer Christian Frederickson to plunge into assumptions of refuge and home.
The World Premiere of Strange Cargo is presented by Performance Space 122 in conjunction with The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
May 4 - 13 | Tickets from $20
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