"STITCH" -- A Circus show by visiting company Ricochet - Trapeze Aerial Circus School Brattleboro Vermont

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Event:

"STITCH" -- A Circus show by visiting company Ricochet

Date:

September 19th, 2008

Time:

7:30 PM

Location:

NECCA studio at the Cotton Mill

Due to a health issue, this show has been cancelled.

RICOCHET is the intimate collaboration of Cohdi Harrell and Laura Stokes. Conceived in a 1940's adobe theatre in the mountains of northern New Mexico, STITCH is the first birth of this quickly emerging duo. Classified as contemporary circus, but preferring the term 'contemporary experimentalismists', Cohdi and Laura have tiptoed in and out of dance companies, operas, theatres, musical collaborations, and circuses across the world. Using hanging objects (trapeze, fabric), body manipulation (contortion, stilts), emotional acrobatics and an old steamer trunk, STITCH is the melting pot for these two movement researchers to dissolve their technique into a sublime story that draws on themes of falling from grace, human potential, dysfunction and connection. Described as "acrobatics for the soul," STITCH is a 45minute exploration of the complexities, hilarities and absurdities of the human experience.

"Stokes and Harrell display dexterous body ritual, gymnastic philosophical momentum, bewitching catastrophic arrangements of mood and tenderness and a ballet of definite surrealistic style, grace and compunction." (Santa Fe Reporter)

"This little story has been known to make grown men cry, and children say 'I love you'. " (Abundant Sugar)

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September, 2008

show full year

Pope John the XXIII once remarked "The circus is the living proof that people of different races, religions, nationalities and views can cooperate and give each other pleasure".

New England Center for Circus Arts
76 Cotton Mill Hill #300
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(802) 254-9780