Wednesday, November 12 - Saturday, November 15, 2008 8PM

No Where Can Be Here Now combines theater, dance, installation and sport, weaving together three disparate sources of inspiration: the music of free jazz composer Ornette Coleman, the building cuts of visual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, and Free Running and Parkour (which transform the urban environment into an obstacle course). Riffing on and juxtaposing Coleman's musical ideas-from his early recordings of the late '50s and early '60s, in particular-and Matta-Clark's "anarchitectural" acts, the piece frames movement and text (adapted by Smith from interviews and a range of found sources) using a dream structure or a jazz structure. Within this loose narrative, we meet a Matta-Clark figure at the point of his most vertiginous building cuts, and a Coleman-like figure at the moment he debuts his singular, wild sound (crafted on a plastic horn, a virtual toy). The layering of No Where...'s various elements (text, dance, sport) attempts to place the forms in conversation-akin to Coleman's musicians playing a song together even as they comment on, or laugh at, what the other is playing, talking back to one another using their instruments. Indeed, the piece toys with the line between text and music, using Coleman's recordings as a language and composing a play-text as though it were music. With Matta-Clark's architecture-based sculpture and the sport of Parkour serving as sources of inspiration, the space itself is also part of the raw material of the piece. Its adventurous movement style and visual design will incorporate both levels of The Chocolate Factory and rely heavily on light to invoke the experience of being inside a Matta-Clark building cut. No Where... seeks out a place where dramaturgical structure becomes an athletic act, generating an intense playfulness that echoes the play of ideas (both musical and architectural).

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