Site/Re-Site

15 years of movement. 15 years of music. 15 years of moments.

September 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24 and 25, 2010
1400 Smallman Street (former Questions Nightclub, next to Lidia's)
Strip District
All shows at 8:00 p.m.


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Featured Music

September 16: Daryl Fleming & The Public Domain
September 17 and 18: Deoro (Attack Theatre Music Director Dave Eggar, Percussionist Chuck Palmer, Bassist Tom Pirozzi)
September 22 and 23: Chatham Baroque
September 24 and 25: Ben Hardt and the Symphony

Tickets

$20 in advance
$25 at the door
$15 for students, seniors, and teachers
$35 September 18 Performance (all seats) and Deoro’s Kingston Morning CD release after party
$15 September 18 CD release after party only

A choreographer, a composer and a designer walk into a bar . . .

…and the audience gets a show with a twist.

Throwing a dime into Attack Theatre’s jukebox of images and ideas, Site/Re-site creates a landscape of gadgets, widgets, sonic diversity, and kinetic wonderment.

This performance event features Attack Theatre’s signature highly charged theatrical dance combined with live music from four different bands.

15 years of movement. 15 years of music. 15 years of moments. 15 years of sites.
Celebrating its 15th year, Attack Theatre is a typical teenager: taking risks, not listening when its told ‘no,’ rebelling, continuing to grow and learn – and looking better than ever.

Attack Theatre revisits and reinvents 15 years of site-specific work in an evening of physically charged dance, live music featuring Deoro (Attack Theatre Music Director Dave Eggar, Percussionist Chuck Palmer, Bassist Tom Pirozzi), Daryl Fleming & The Public Domain, Chatham Baroque, and Ben Hardt and the Symphony, and Attack Theatre’s signature gadgets, widgets, sonic diversity and kinetic wonderment.

Attack Theatre moves into the former Questions Night Club, a mere 148 feet from The Dirty Ball 2010 site to mount Site/Re-site. The company recognizes this pattern of transforming abandoned nightclubs, bars, and warehouses into performance spaces and kinetic playgrounds, and chooses not to ignore the bar setting, but rather embrace the “site.”

“The seating for the audience is going to be rather nontraditional,” notes Producing Artistic Director Peter Kope. “We’re keeping the round tables and high chairs and using the existing architecture and setting to inform the show, allowing the audience to not only feel like they are watching art, but also like they are in an old nightclub. You can’t ignore the site. You can’t ignore the moments. So, instead, we’re using it.”

And use it, they do. By “re-siting” past site-specific works of Attack Theatre’s repertory, Site/Re-site offers something new for both the audiences who’ve never seen Attack Theatre before and the devoted audiences who first joined in the 5,000 person Kazoo
Orchestra with Peter, Michele, and Donna (First Night Pittsburgh 1995 – and incidentally one of their first site-specific works).

From signature dances with doors and spinning seesaws to not-so-familiar telephone acrobatics, to performing with a different band each night; if Attack Theatre excels at one thing, it’s keeping the audience guessing. Managing Artistic Director Michele de la Reza
comments, “We have used live music for all of our productions – but typically it’s been one band for one show. This time, we are trying a fascinating experiment. Imagine turning off the sound to a photo slide show or favorite movie, then playing different music to accompany the visuals each time. Experiencing the same visual with a baroque Spanish Fandango or a heart-wrenching pop ballad can create wonderfully surprising and poignant theatrical moments.” She continues, “To celebrate how aesthetically and aurally unique our history has been, we’ve picked some of our favorite musicians throughout the city. In addition to our Attack Theatre band led by Dave Eggar we’ve created a diverse line-up that runs the gamut of musical genres from folk, rock, world to Baroque. Getting to work with the likes of Chatham Baroque, Ben Hardt and Daryl Fleming is a real artistic treat.”

The Saturday, September 18th evening performance is a special event that features the Attack Theatre band, Deoro, just back from a tour throughout Asia. After the show, audiences can stay and enjoy a CD release party of “Kingston Morning” right in the
performance space.

Site/Re-site features choreography by award-winning co-artistic directors, Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, music by Deoro (with Attack Theatre’s Grammy nominated Music Director Dave Eggar, Percussionist Chuck Palmer, Bassist Tom Pirozzi), Chatham Baroque,
Ben Hardt and the Symphony, and Daryl Fleming & The Public Domain. Attack Theatre’s company dancers include Liz Chang, Dane Toney and Ashley Williams. Sound design by Dave Bjornson, while Attack Theatre’s resident production wizard, lighting designer Kevin Matz brings 16.7 million color combinations to the pupils of the audience.

Holiday Unwrapped

A dance event for the kid in all of us.

December 3 and 4, 2010
Friday 12/3 - 6:00pm
Saturday 12/4 - 10:30am and 1:30pm
2425 Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh Opera building)
Strip District
Tickets: $10 adults/$5 children
Available online through ProArtsTickets or by calling 412-394-3353

We’re home for the holidays with the public premiere of Holiday Unwrapped. This dance performance features Attack Theatre’s rambunctious physicality and theatrical wit, set to the sounds of classical, jazz, and klezmer music, all wrapped around interactive games and movement adventures for kids and adults before and after the show. In Holiday Unwrapped, the frenetic season becomes a fantastical journey where socks become ice skates, empty packages become turntables, and the dinner table has a life of its own — all with the message that it’s better to dance with the box on your head than to fret over what’s inside.

Originally commissioned by Gateway to the Arts for in-school performances, Attack Theatre is bringing this engaging program (which has been seen by over 20 schools and nearly 4,500 students and teachers in the region over the last two years) to our studio space in December. Join the company for a performance event that incorporates dance, games, refreshments, and interactive creative play - designed for the kid in all of us.

Sponsored in part by First Commonwealth.

Free parking is available on Penn Avenue or the side streets.
Other parking is available in a $5 lot beside the Harp & Fiddle restaurant. Enter the lot from Penn Avenue; exit onto Smallman Street. (Hint: if you make a purchase at the Right by Nature Grocery, you can purchase a parking token for $2.) Please walk back to the 25th Street entrance to the building.

Attack Theatre presents Show #58

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All shows at 8:00pm
New Hazlett Theater
Allegheny Square East, Northside [map it]

Tickets

$20 advance, $25 at the door, $15 for students, seniors, and teachers
$40 Opening night reception (Friday, Jan 21) at 6:30pm
Join the company for a special opening night reception celebrating a rich 15-year history of intense physicality and original live music with libations and an acoustic performance with Deoro, Attack Theatre’s house band (Dave Eggar, Chuck Palmer and Tom Pirozzi).

Emotionally riveting and haunting…Trapped (2008)
When technology interferes… R.A.M. (2010)
A muse in an analog dream… Typeset (1996)
This is how it all starts… Beginnings (world premiere)
World-class dancers and musicians envelop the audience with nuance and bombast in their triumphant return to the New Hazlett Theater with Attack Theatre Presents Show #58.

Attack Theatre Presents Show #58 features the haunting and emotionally riveting Trapped (2008, composed by esteemed Japanese composer Somei Satoh), the exhilarating and innovative R.A.M. (2010, co-commissioned by the Three Rivers Arts Festival and Gateway to the Arts), the analog dreamworld Typeset (1996), and the world premiere of Beginnings, a jarringly beautiful look at how it all starts.