Surface Tension

October 10, 8 pm & October 11, 7 pm
Lyceum Theatre, Downtown San Diego
79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101-6144

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Malashock Dance's fall performance, Surface Tension, holds true to the company's mission to "put emotion in motion." Artistic Director John Malashock will premiere AFTER DUST, a hypnotic and mesmerizing exploration of relationships, and Associate Artistic Director Michael Mizerany will premiere WAYWARD GLANCES, a high energy work of brazen and unyielding physicality. Also on the program: John Malashock's Emmy Award-winning dance theater work, APOLOGIES FROM THE LOWER DECK.

About the pieces:

AFTER DUST makes a parallel between the state of houses and that of personal relationships. Each requires a great deal of work to maintain and each will suffer with a lack of loving attention and commitment to repair and rebuilding. Houses seem to always be either in a state of decline, improvement or, briefly, a period of relative (though tenuous) stability. These three duets will reflect those various states.

With APOLOGIES FROM THE LOWER DECK, Malashock and playwright Michael Erikson have created a tragic/comical dance play telling the story of five cousins taking a surrealistic outer and inner journey back to their distant homeland. The story is highly entertaining, yet soulful, and Attebery’s score creates the perfect environment for the five eccentric characters. Ron Coularton, one of San Diego’s finest actors, relates the story from within the action – alternating as narrator and ‘voice’ of the cousins.

Utilizing the haunting vocals of German counter-tenor Klaus Nomi, WAYWARD GLANCES is an edgy, high energy work of brazen and unyielding physicality.