pounds per square inch performance and The New Alt Performance Group present Four Mad Humours November 2, 2011

pounds per square inch performance and
The New Alt Performance Group present
FOUR MAD HUMOURS
Wednesday, November 2 - Saturday, November 5, 8pm
at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West

pounds per square inch performance and The New Alt Performance Group present Four Mad Humours, a bi-national, interdisciplinary, real-time, networked dance theatre work that links Buffalo and Toronto in a performance at The Theatre Centre from November 2 – November 5.

Choreographed, written and directed by Toronto-based pounds per square inch's artistic director Gerry Trentham, Four Mad Humours includes four solo works based on the Elizabethan Humours once thought to make up a human being – sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic that delve into questions about the nature of madness.

Two simultaneous programs are presented in Buffalo and Toronto. In Toronto, Linnea Swan with Phlegmatic (Shades of Blue) and Gerry Trentham with Choleric (Yellow Scale) premiere at The Theatre Centre.

Simultaneously, Amy Taravella and James Morrow perform Sanguine (Degrees of Red) and Melancholy (Measured in Green) respectively at Buffalo New York's ALT Theatre which will be projected in real time alongside the other work. Audiences in Toronto and Buffalo will experience a live performance and a live-feed virtual performance at the same time.

Conceived and developed with Trentham's long time collaborator Jamie O'Neil, the four solos explore the range of human physicality, sound, speech and disposition. They illuminate distinctive human drives – life-long, often hidden desires that guide day-to-day intentions and journeys, and shape lives. Each explores the deep edge of one of the four humours and its related element.

The simultaneous performances draw attention to the paradox of focussing on a single present event while knowing that this event is a small detail within an epic world of activity and madness.

pounds per square inch performance and
The New Alt Performance Group present
FOUR MAD HUMOURS
pounds per square inch artistic director Gerry Trentham’s
newest interdisciplinary performance series.
A bi-national, simultaneous performance conceived and developed
with media designer Jamie O’Neil.
Performed by Linnea Swan and Gerry Trentham in Toronto and Montreal
and James Morrow and Amy Taravella in Buffalo and Chicago.
Toronto shows are performed simultaneously with Buffalo; Montreal with Chicago.
Composed by John Mark Sherlock.
Lighting and Set Design by Jacob Snodgrass & Scott Drysdale.
Toronto performances: Wednesday, November 2 - Saturday, November 5, 8pm
at The Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West
Tickets: $28 (Student/Seniors/CADA $20)
Box Office: 416-538-0988 OR online at www.theatrecentre.org

Official Website: http://www.theatrecentre.org