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Transverse Orientation

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Transverse Orientation
Dimitris Papaioannou

"Like all of Papaioannou's pieces, it's a meticulously crafted, intensely visual experience." - The New York Times

"Dazzling with beauty" - franceinfo:culture

"Concocts some truly arresting moments" - The Guardian

Commissioned by an international consortium that includes Stanford Live, Transverse Orientation (which recently received an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Dance Production) is an epic evening-length work that combines sculptural bodies, hybrids, and mythical creatures with contemporary movement that oscillates between the absurd, surrealism, and dreams. Taking inspiration from the natural behavior of moths to seek light and major themes from Greek mythology, Transverse Orientation follows the human compulsion to find meaning on the journey.

"I was first introduced to Dimitris in Montreal when I attended a performance of The Great Tamer at the recommendation of many of my international colleagues" says Chris Lorway, Stanford Live's Executive Director. "I was immediately transported into his visual world and was transfixed for the entirety of the performance--I knew at that moment that I wanted to support the creation of his next piece. I'm so excited to share this stellar work with Bay Area audiences."

In 2018, Papaioannou was the first choreographer to create a new evening length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since Bausch's death in 2009. He also conceived and directed the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With a background rooted in painting and visual art, Papaioannou is a true master of visual spectacle and creations that blur theater, experimental choreography, and live performance. Transverse Orientation continues his talent for visual theater, packing powerful and suggestive images that capture the painterly quality of Papaioannou's work with choreography that transforms the human body and objects through illusion. Beauty and absurdity sit side by side, challenging traditional notions of beauty with vivid scenes that offer as much poignance as levity and humor.

For the first time, Papaioannou put together an international cast, which includes eight dancers selected from more than five hundred who auditioned. The final group of dancers--described by The New York Times as "expert puppeteers of themselves"--worked closely with Papaioannou throughout the playful, intuitive creative process.

"My works evolve during rehearsal. They are not composed beforehand," Papaioannou says. "I prepare material only in order to kick-start the process--and most of the time, I throw it out. I've resolved to not know what the outcome will be ahead of time, to trust in the process. In the end, if I'm lucky, the work reveals itself, and I try to understand it, to perfect it's meaning, to help it become clearly what it is."

Warning: This production contains nudity
Run Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Transverse Orientation
Dimitris Papaioannou

"Like all of Papaioannou's pieces, it's a meticulously crafted, intensely visual experience." - The New York Times

"Dazzling with beauty" - franceinfo:culture

"Concocts some truly arresting moments" - The Guardian

Commissioned by an international consortium that includes Stanford Live, Transverse Orientation (which recently received an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Dance Production) is an epic evening-length work that combines sculptural bodies, hybrids, and mythical creatures with contemporary movement that oscillates between the absurd, surrealism, and dreams. Taking inspiration from the natural behavior of moths to seek light and major themes from Greek mythology, Transverse Orientation follows the human compulsion to find meaning on the journey.

"I was first introduced to Dimitris in Montreal when I attended a performance of The Great Tamer at the recommendation of many of my international colleagues" says Chris Lorway, Stanford Live's Executive Director. "I was immediately transported into his visual world and was transfixed for the entirety of the performance--I knew at that moment that I wanted to support the creation of his next piece. I'm so excited to share this stellar work with Bay Area audiences."

In 2018, Papaioannou was the first choreographer to create a new evening length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since Bausch's death in 2009. He also conceived and directed the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With a background rooted in painting and visual art, Papaioannou is a true master of visual spectacle and creations that blur theater, experimental choreography, and live performance. Transverse Orientation continues his talent for visual theater, packing powerful and suggestive images that capture the painterly quality of Papaioannou's work with choreography that transforms the human body and objects through illusion. Beauty and absurdity sit side by side, challenging traditional notions of beauty with vivid scenes that offer as much poignance as levity and humor.

For the first time, Papaioannou put together an international cast, which includes eight dancers selected from more than five hundred who auditioned. The final group of dancers--described by The New York Times as "expert puppeteers of themselves"--worked closely with Papaioannou throughout the playful, intuitive creative process.

"My works evolve during rehearsal. They are not composed beforehand," Papaioannou says. "I prepare material only in order to kick-start the process--and most of the time, I throw it out. I've resolved to not know what the outcome will be ahead of time, to trust in the process. In the end, if I'm lucky, the work reveals itself, and I try to understand it, to perfect it's meaning, to help it become clearly what it is."

Warning: This production contains nudity
Run Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
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