10 May – 8 June 2013
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8:00pm

Tickets Available Here

Rounding out a year-long exploration of expressionist work, The LIDA Project presents Eugene O’Neil’sThe Hairy Ape the story of a simple laborer trapped in a world controlled by the rich. This classic expressionist work of is re-imagined as a one-man performance with hyper-media in this new production. This new bi-lingual translation and interpretation brings to the front the issues of immigration, class structure, and industrialism. First produced in 1922 the LIDA Project modernizes the work and addresses the themes of alienation from a single lone immigrant on a journey to fit into a stratified world.

Direction: Brian Freeland
Assistant Direction: Laura Lounge

Featuring: Lorenzo Sariñana & Hart DeRose

Scenic Design: David Lafont
Lighting Design: Kenrick Fischer
Sound Design: Dustin Lacy
Projection Design: Brian Freeland
Property & Costume Design: Laura Lounge

When a sweet-faced couple shows up on a suburban doorstep, an unsuspecting homeowner finds himself the victim of a surreal home invasion. Utilizing wit and wordplay to mask a more sinister threat, the couple wages a battle over indigenous rights from the living room, asking us to examine the brutality that fuels our system of private property.

work | space was proud to present Boulder’s Square Product Theatre for a limited run of their acclaimed productionThe Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?) by Brenda Withers.

“Sanchez’s script deftly explores concepts of beauty, privilege, and hope through the writer’s unique style of tragicomedy, blending heightened, poetic language with moments of brutal realism.” – Oliver Sava, Chicago Theater Beat.

Featuring:
GerRee Hinshaw
Lorenzo Sarinana
Josh Hartwell
Cajardo Lindsey
Flavia Florezell

In collaboration with The LIDA Project, Fresh City Life at the Denver Public Library, and some of Denver’s best actors, OFF THE SHELF is a reading series aimed at exposing Denver culture-lovers to theatre scripts they might not otherwise encounter in full production.

$17 general admission / $14 advance tickets here

Simple Moves asks how we got to where we are. How can we understand the present not only as the sum of past decisions, but also an accumulation of shadows – of paths untaken, of potentials on the horizon, of current issues unresolved? Bjerregaard conjures these shadows of his past, present, and future, and seeks to transform them into energy, into movement in new directions. By turns autobiographical and metaphysical, the work rearranges the past to find a richer understanding of the present and future, for the performer and also for the audience.

Mancopy Danse Kompagni, directed by Danish choreographer Jens Bjerregaard, has been working in Beirut, Lebanon for the last five years, building a dual identity and sense of home and place. The work, compositions by Bjerregaard and by other choreographers around the globe, seek fluid relationships with cultural and artistic structures that allow for new perspectives, greater accessibility, and global thinking.

Mancopy is in residency 4/14-4/22 at work|space Denver, offering performances and conducting outreach activities with local schools. The second international dance event curated by Control Group Productions, Mancopy’s tour offers Coloradoans a rare opportunity to engage with globally acclaimed artists working in the heart of global current events in the Middle East.

More information on Mancopy

Inquiries on the tour and performances: Patrick Mueller / 303-947-2827

One night only. April 13, 2013 at 8:00pm.

Decisions are the fabric of life, woven into every aspect that we experience on our journey as we strive to live in this world.  Former offenders, who have done their time, paid their dues to society and sincerely seek to turn their lives around, are confronted with changing themselves inside and out.  They face the challenge of breaking the cycle.

Red Rocks Community College Theatre Arts and Dance Department, in collaboration with the RRCC College Gateway program, the Denver Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and the Terry Stevinson family, presents Scars: Breaking the Cycle

This unique theatre production is based on real-life experiences of Red Rocks Community College Gateway students. According to Catherine Lachman, Director, the Gateway Program is “designed to reduce recidivism and provide positive outcomes for individuals involved with the criminal justice system.”  Part of the healing process for Gateway participants is to write about their personal struggles as well as their triumphs.  Based upon these writings, this ensemble-based theatre production recreates and narrates these tragic events and the ‘scars’ that are left behind.

Written by Red Rocks Community College faculty, Connie J. Sander and Pamela Jamruszka Mencher; and directed by Connie J. Sander, Scars: Breaking the Cycle, explores the pain and dysfunction that is passed down from one generation to the next until someone has the courage to break the cycle. The play also examines the idea of “society’s throw-away people” and how Gateway has helped students rebuild their lives.

More about Red Rocks Community College:  Since 1969 Red Rocks Community College has delivered quality education to students of all ages and backgrounds. RRCC offers more than 300 programs leading to two-year degrees or professional certificates and serves over 15,000 students per year online and at campus locations in Lakewood and Arvada. For more information, please visit rrcc.edu.

Dorothy Parker is in limbo and has a lot of baggage to shed before she can move on to the next phase of her journey. Join for this wonderful two person play about the greatest wit of the 20th century. Starring Billie McBride* as Dorothy Parker and Paul Page as Janus.

Two dance artists from Fresh Blood Collective, Eve Brady and Ying Zhu, team up with theater maker and director Petra Ulrych to present Impedimenta, a theatre/ dance performance that playfully explores the equipment, expectations, and enigmatic desires of women.

This collaboration features a multigenerational cast of women ranging from a 21 year old African American spoken-word poetess, to an 81 year old solo female sailor. It combines poetry, dance, fairy tale, scholarly writing, and humor, and serves up the vulnerable, sassy, intelligent and snarky heart of today’s woman.

About The Company

Fresh Blood Collective is an umbrella dance company conceived by K.C. Chun-Manning in 2010. The company has performed in Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Philadelphia, and New York in the past three years in various collaborative concerts. Eve Brady and Ying Zhu are dancer/ choreographers from FBC.

Petra Ulrych has written, performed, directed, and taught in Denver and her native Prague. With an extensive background in both theater and counseling, her work cuts to the heart of the human psyche.

Based on Karel Čapek’s 1920 science fiction play R.U.R., the LIDA Project re-imagines the world of artificial intelligence and “robots”. Wrapped in a wall of sound, sight, and experience this unique performance experience is part sci-fi, part noise band, part theatre, part media-show, and completely undefinable.

Tickets $20 / $17 online at salon2.bpt.me
includes handmade chocolates, tea, and wine.

A Romantic salon.
A gallery performance party.
An entirely unique aesthetic experience.

Solitary points in the infinite abyss. Parts and whole. The filamental, imagined lines between and through. An energetic matrix: object, atmosphere, and correlation. Recklessly, blissfully we cast our sublime solitudes into the irrepressible, ecstatic chaos of this web of things.

A performance/installation/experimentally-structured two-week event featuring independent, collaborative, and intersected works by a dozen extraordinary artists. A reimagining of modes of production and presentation.

This second of five Control Group-led explorations of Romanticism – its history and ideologies, its echoes into other historical contexts, including the present – extends our research on to a new, broader platform: a true artist salon. Pursuing independent work toward a unified vision, we create a unique, multivalent, organically-structured, aesthetically rich experience where we invite our guests to enter into our world and become part of the event.

Featuring participation by: Patrick Mueller, Rori Knudson, Brian Freeland, Tricia Hoke, Regan Drouin, Kristine Whittle, Hallie Bauernschmidt, Cortney McGuire, Katie Anhalt, Erica Augden, Matthew Kearns, Marc Devine, Monica Dionysiou, and others.

Contact info: Patrick@controlgroupproductions.org
www.controlgroupproductions.org

CGP COMPANY BIO:
Control Group Productions is a dance company / research platform into live performance. We create intermedia performance and dance theatre: immersive, transportive, finely crafted experiences of you and me and here and other worlds. Through site and public space work, architectural inverventions, and audience-interactivity, we seek to reconsider structures of making and sharing art. We aim to build a sustainable arts future through administering and actively curating a small venue.

Founded in 2008 by Patrick Mueller, CGP creates one to three major works each year, ranging from stage events to installation to film. Additionally, we regularly create mobile site and public space works. Our work has been presented by the Denver Theatre District, Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, BINDERY|space, Boulder Fringe, ARTOPIA by Westword, and others, with most premieres at our home venue work|space Denver. Our most recent work, Salon Romantik, opus 1: Wanderers in the Sea of Fog, toured to North Carolina in 2012 for performance as part of the American Dance Festival MFA Performance series. The first of five pieces dealing with Romanticism, fairytale, 1960’s avant garde philosophy, and contemporary pop culture, Salon 1 engages narratives of crossroads and faery worlds through continually mutating characters from Hansel and Gretel to Vaslav Nijinsky to lost dogs to the Devil.

Dance the Orange

Event website  |  Trailer

1 part dance, 1 part theatre, 1 part opera and 1 part art installation, Dance the Orange pushes the boundaries of what live performance can be. Based on the story of Orpheus, it pulls inspiration from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, the artwork of William Blake and the musicality of Daniel Johnston, creating a world of video projections, installation, live music and the simple magic of bodies in space. Step into a world of spectacular transformation.