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
Strip District

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

December 3 and 4, 2010
12/3 - 6:00pm
12/4 - 10:30am and 1:30pm
2425 Liberty Avenue
Strip District

Tickets

$10 adults/$5 children

Holiday Unwrapped is a two-day holiday performance event including interactive games, performances, refreshments and a meet the artist session. With dances adapted from classic and contemporary holiday fare, Attack Theatre presents an engaging and contemporary performance this winter that is appropriate for all ages. Running the gamut from Tchaikovsky, Ellington, and Bizet to contemporary music, Attack Theatre's Holiday Unwrapped is a high-fructose-corn-syrup-free performance that invites families to experience the holidays with a fresh perspective.

Before and after the show, audiences can enjoy games and refreshments in the lobby. An homage to old school yard playground games with a creative movement twist, participants will interact and play games including Four-Square, 3-D tic-tac-toe, Bag Attack Boogaloo, Connect Four and life-size chess.

Attack Theatre presents Show #58

January 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29, 2011
All shows at 8:00pm
New Hazlett Theater
Northside

Tickets

$20 advance/$25 at the door
$15 for students, seniors, and teachers

Attack Theatre returns to the New Hazlett Theater with its signature blend of live music, intense physicality, integrated video and essential visual arts with a production that re-visits and re-imagines company favorites and a world premiere. Attack Theatre’s world-renowned house band, under the Musical Direction of Dave Eggar, grips with a theatrically tight musical score to frame the audience’s experience of a performance uniquely Attack Theatre.