Aszure Barton and Artists to bring striking choreography to the stage
A dancer who has created striking choreography for the stage and film will bring her dance project to Stevens Point on Wednesday, Oct. 26, as part of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Performing Arts Series.
Aszure Barton and Artists will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Theater@1800 at Sentry Headquarters, 1800 North Point Drive, Stevens Point. The company, founded by Barton in 2002, has toured Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Canada and the United States.
According to the New York Times, the production is “a rare instance of a dance that feels as if it were plucked straight from the choreographer’s extremely specific imagination and set, full-grown, onstage … full of surprise and humor, emotion and pain, expressed through a dance vocabulary that takes ballet technique and dismantles it to near-invisibility.”
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $6 for youth. UW-Stevens Point students with ID may buy tickets in advance for $4.50 or be admitted free the day of the show if seats remain. Tickets may be purchased through the University Information and Tickets Office in the Dreyfus University Center, 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378. Visa, MasterCard and Discover are accepted.
Barton began tap dancing at age three and was formally trained at the National Ballet School in Toronto. She has created works for Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hell’s Kitchen Dance, the National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Sydney Dance Company, The Julliard School, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and The Martha Graham Dance Company, among others.
She choreographed the Broadway revival production of “The Threepenny Opera” in 2006 and currently also is an artist in residence at The Banff Centre in Canada and The Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. Barton was also proclaimed the official ambassador of contemporary choreography in Alberta, Canada.
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