EPiC by Post:Ballet + The Living Earth Show
The Latest Update
New material to be premiered April 28, 2019 in San Francisco
The Living Earth Show and dancers from Post:Ballet will premiere new material of this co-production on April 28, 2019 as part of The Living Earth Show’s annual fundraising gala, Living Earth Day. The new material will continue to be workshopped in the summer of 2019 in San Francisco, with more public performances and colloquia.
EPiC Sneak Peek
A concert dance, contemporary classical music, technologically-driven visual design, culinary art, and fashion performance experience featuring choreographer Vanessa Thiessen, director Robert Dekkers, and acclaimed Bay Area composer Samuel Adams, EPiC uses the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from classical mythology as a jumping point for an introspective exploration of the modern day human condition.
Together with The Living Earth Show, Post: and the collaborating artists are creating an immersive program that will premiere in summer 2020.
The artistic partners worked in the summer of 2018 to create the first body of material, and Post:Ballet soloists worked closely with Thiessen and Adams in November 2018 to build solo phrases.
The rest of the creative material for EPiC will be built throughout 2019- catch work-in-progress showings at our Post:Workshop Sharing (August 2, 2019 @ Dance Mission Theater), Sneak Peek (Summer 2019), and P:B Jam (Fall 2019).
Overview
Post:Ballet’s newest evening-length co-production with The Living Earth Show
A concert dance, contemporary classical music, technologically-driven visual design, culinary art, and fashion performance experience featuring choreographer Vanessa Thiessen, director Robert Dekkers, and acclaimed Bay Area composer Samuel Adams, EPiC uses the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from classical mythology as a jumping point for an introspective exploration of the modern day human condition.
Together with The Living Earth Show, Post: and the collaborating artists are creating an immersive program that will premiere in summer 2020. The creative material for EPiC will be built throughout 2019- catch work-in-progress showings at our Post:Workshop Sharing (August 2, 2019 @ Dance Mission Theater), Sneak Peek (Summer 2019), and P:B Jam (Fall 2019).
Click below to watch excerpts from Post:Ballet’s 2016 co-production with The Living Earth Show, Do Be, and stay tuned for more updates and events leading up to our EPiC premiere.
Project Media
Post:Ballet and The Living Earth Show co-present ‘Do Be,’ an 80-minute new music and modern ballet work in two acts
August 4-6, 2016
Z Space – San Francisco
Original scores by Anna Meredith, Jonathan Pfeffer, Nicole Lizée, Jacob Cooper, and Chris Cerrone
Music performed by Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson (The Living Earth Show)
Choreography by Robert Dekkers with significant collaboration from the dance artists
Costume/scenic design by Christian Squires
Lighting design by Jim French
Video by Loren Robertson Productions
An original collaboration between Samuel Adams and Robert Dekkers
July 16-17, 2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco
Original score by Samuel Adams
Choreography by Robert Dekkers
Post:Ballet dance artist Jessica Collado (courtesy Houston Ballet)
Percussionist Andy Meyerson (courtesy The Living Earth Show)
Lighting design by Jack Carpenter
Video by Loren Robertson Productions
New work commissioned by Kansas City Ballet and restaged for Post:Ballet in 2015
July 16-17, 2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco
Original score by Jonathan Pfeffer
Choreography by Robert Dekkers
Post:Ballet dance artists Cora Cliburn and Ricardo Zayas
Costume design by Marlowe Bassett
Lighting design by Jack Carpenter
Videography by Loren Robertson
Start and End Dates
06/25/2020 — 06/29/2020
Location
San Francisco, California
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