Diavolo April 19, 2012

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $30



Diavolo company members are dancers, gymnasts, actors, and athletes. First and foremost, though, they’re teammates. Jacques Heim, the French-born artistic director who founded the Los Angeles troupe in 1992, guides his ten performers in collaboratively developing work on oversized surrealistic sets and everyday structures. Diavolo explores isolation, fear, destiny, survival, faith, modernization, and danger in the shadow of a technological world. The company’s appearance at Penn State features the world premiere of a work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts. The program also includes Fearful Symmetries, which starts and ends with a cube illuminating the parallel between mathematics and the human soul, and Trajectoire, a visceral journey set on a twenty-first-century galleon tossing on a sea of emotions.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Official Website: http://www.cpa.psu.edu/events/diav.html