Lionel Popkin

Lionel Popkin

Presents Inflatable Trio

Thursday, March 16 – 7:30 pm

Tickets are $32_{+taxes and fees}

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 10 – 10 a.m. online, and at Ticket Central at 2 p.m.

Performance Hall Stage

Performed on, and around, an inflatable plastic living room set, Inflatable Trio looks at the ways we attempt to orient ourselves within ever-changing domestic, social and environmental landscapes. As the elements of a family room are repeatedly deflated, dismantled and re-formed, three dancers poignantly persist, react and cope with this ever changing setting.. Each dancer in turn upends—and is upended by—the objects, people and situations that surround them.

Inflatable Trio emerges as a kind of domestic drama, expanded beyond its walls, where the current state of our capacities to navigate one another resonates with our shifting global and environmental challenges. Increasingly we communicate without our bodies present (war without our bodies present)—has this heightened the impact of the physical exchange? What does domestic interaction mean in this context? Is home a retreat, a seductive space where we still touch and confront one another? Are we equally equipped for the encounter?

Lionel Popkin (choreographer/performer) has had his choreography presented nationally and internationally at numerous venues. including DanspaceProject Abrons Arts Center and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, The Getty Museum, REDCAT, and Highways in Los Angeles, the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Series, On the Boards in Seattle, the Wilma Theater, The Painted Bride and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, ODC in San Francisco, Sushi Performance in San Diego, Dance Place in DC, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou China.

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http://www.lionelpopkin.org/

This performance and residency is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.