PuSh Festival presents The Four Horsemen Project
By ZoeQ on January 11, 2008 - 7:18pm
The Four Horsemen Project, Volcano (Toronto)
January 17–19, 2008, 7pm
January 19, 4pm
The Scotiabank Dance Centre
Tickets $22/28 Tickets Tonight www.ticketstonight.ca
www.volcano.ca | www.pushfestival.ca
Five years in the making, The Four Horsemen Project is a stylistic collision of theatre, dance, sound and animation in tribute to Toronto’s legendary Four Horsemen - Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol - a group of 1970s sound poets who turned the world on its ear, exploding the notion of poetry as the written word.
In this highly anticipated show a new generation of artists breathes life into some nearly forgotten work - iconoclastic, brilliant and delightfully irreverent - which, 30 years later, still feels avant-garde. The Four Horsemen’s outrageously fun poetry is brought to life in an exhilarating exhibition of swirling animation, sonic hi-jinx and stellar performances that thrill with their combination of physical and vocal virtuosity.
Conceived and directed by Toronto’s Ross Manson and Kate Alton, in collaboration with Vancouver animation studio Global Mechanic, this multi-disciplinary extravaganza received its world premiere at Toronto’s Factory Theatre in February 2007 where it wowed audiences and critics, and won four Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Its appearance at PuSh marks its debut in bpNichol’s hometown.
