by Kelly Hargraves 

HEADS UP FOR TWO SPECIAL DANCE EVENTS this week: Anna Halprin's 1965 masterwork parades & changes, replays at REDCAT. Diavolo Dance Theater brings acrobatic spectacle to the Greek.

Everything Old is New Again Anna Halprin's 1965 masterwork parades & changes, replays.

REDCAT presents this full-scale reinterpretation of Anna Halprin's game- changing landmark of postmodern dance, where dancers improvise based on a set of movement and music scores, carrying out everyday tasks, like dressing and undressing, all the while inventing new gestures and movements. In 2009, it doesn't sound so groundbreaking but in 1965 the original piece was censored when it premiered in New York due to its frank treatment of nudity, challenging conceptions of the body, stillness, and the "ceremony of trust" (as Halprin named it) between performers and audience.

And, the not so everyday moves of DIAVOLO...
The unusual and death defying moves of the Diavolo Dance Theater will perform several pieces to the live beats of Destructo, a first time collaboration. Expect the unexpected as the acrobatic dancers execute a dance spectacle, creating abstract narratives through surreal tableaux through athletic movements, surrealistic sets and everyday items repurposed to create visual and movement metaphors about the absurdities of life and the struggle to maintain our humanity in an increasingly technological world.