Daniel Stark Open Rehearsal at Zenon Dance Company March 14

Media contact: Camille LeFevre

Email: camillelefevre@comcast.net

Office: 651-646-2098

Cell: 651-285-2287

Daniel Stark: OPEN REHEARSAL

At Zenon Dance Company Studio

Friday: March 14, noon to 1:00 p.m.

Sneak Peek of World Premiere for Zenon Dance Company

Press Preview Opportunity

What: Preview choreographer Daniel Starks new work for Zenon Dance Company

When: Friday, March 14, noon to 1:00 p.m.

Where: Studio 4A, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis

RSVP: by 10:00 a.m., March 14, to: danielle@zenondance.org

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTAWhen Zenon Dance Company debuts its 31st Spring Season at The Cowles Center May 9-11, 16-18, a world premiere by choreographer Daniel Stark, titled Folktale Zero will be featured on the program. Please join Zenon Dance Company during its open rehearsal Friday, March 14, for a preview of the new work for six dancers.

Stark says the work asks if folktales still have the same hold on the younger generation (sometimes called generation zero) as they used to. Are we too enamored with irony and beholden to cynicism to still tell folktales? Are folktales losing their power to excite, scare or educate by being drowned out by the deluge of Internet downloads and Tweets? Are young people so overwhelmed by the real world, which holds real terror, that phantasmagoric stories aren't scary anymore?

The piece re-imagines the Icelandic folktale of Grýla, a monster who devours children who have misbehaved. Folktale Zero, Stark adds, is set in the 21st century and both tells a folktale and represents the death of a folktale.

Stark currently is an associate professor of dance at Minnesota State University in Mankato. His choreography was featured in Earth: Healing the Rift, a performance in Kenya involving collaborations between visual and performing artists from Africa, Russia, Italy, India, Greece, New Zealand, U.K. and the U.S. He has also set dances on the Beijing Dance Academy in China and dance companies throughout the U.S.

About Zenon Dance Companys 31st Spring Season:

When: 8 p.m. May 9-10, 16-17

7 p.m. May 11 and May 18

Where: The Cowles Center, Minneapolis

Tickets: $34; 612-206-3600

http://www.thecowlescenter.org/calendar-tickets/zenon-dance-company-2

For more information on Zenons 31st Spring Season, contact Camille LeFevre at 651-646-2098; camillelefevre@comcast.net.

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