Fire Throws
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 22, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
Opened Feb 22, 2009
Closed Mar 28, 2009
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In Fire Throws a contemporary Antigone challenges her past, re-examining her own story of sacrifice through the kaleidoscopic frenzy of a fever dream. Through video projection, live music, and dance-inspired staging, Fire Throws explodes the classic text into a cutting-edge meditation on desire, drive, and what is at stake in breaking the rules.
Fire Throws features two Antigones: the one we know from the original story and the 2400-year-old symbol she has become, looking back on her story and searching for the person inside the icon. Antigone's brazen defense of the sanctity of burial takes a new relevance when staged blocks away from ground zero; and Creon's misguided use and abuse of power is a cautionary tale in a world of divisive politics. Ripe Time uses its signature physical and visual story-telling style to re-invigorate a great classic with a contemporary and relevant energy.
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Adaptations of Greek plays have been plentiful on New York's stages in the past seasons, and one of the most popular of the classics has been Sophocles' Antigone. But any thoughts of not watching one more retelling of this infamous story of civil disobedience should be put aside for
Fire Throws, Rachel Dickstein's vibrant new dance-theater piece now at 3LD Art & Technology Center.
Dickstein's chief innovation is to have the story unfold from the perspective of two Antigones. There is "Antigone Who Was" (played with earnest passion by Laura Butler), the fiery young woman who disobeys the edict of her uncle, King Creon (the commanding John Campion) and buries her brother Polyneices after he[...]