Featuring the music of Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band members Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell Directed and choreographed by Danial Shapiro & Joanie Smith

An exceptionally imaginative collaboration with down-to-earth, poignant storytelling, gravity-defying movements, and grace and humor, ANYTOWN follows three families whose lives are entangled in a web of desire and need.

Opening June 21;

Playing through June 24, 2012

in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

(Minneapolis/St. Paul) The Guthrie Theater today announced casting for the Shapiro & Smith Dance production of ANYTOWNfeaturing the music of legendary singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band Members Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell. Directed and choreographed by Danial Shapiro & Joanie Smith, ANYTOWN follows three families whose lives are entangled in a web of desire and need, and crafts a seamless dialogue between music and movement. An exceptional artistic collaboration pairing choreography with popular hit songs, this dance theater piece uses music and movement as a tool for poignant storytelling to address the concerns of todays middle and working classes. The Village Voice offered that Anytown invades your heart, and at some moments almost stops it.

ANYTOWN features the talents of acclaimed local dance artists Maggie Bergeron, Jose Bueno, Carl Flink, Emilie Plauché Flink, Megan McClellan, Scott Mettille, Kari Mosel, Eddie Oroyan, Justin Reiter and Laura Selle Virtucio.

ANYTOWN will open on Thursday, June 21, and continue through Sunday, June 24, in the Dowling Studio at the Guthrie Theater. Single tickets start at $18 and are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE, 612.225.6244 (Group Sales) and online at www.guthrietheater.org.

SHAPIRO & SMITH DANCE has a reputation for performing tales of beauty and biting wit that run the gamut from searingly provocative to absurdly hilarious. Dancing with breathtaking physicality and emotional depth, they have earned an international reputation for virtuosity, substance, craft and pure abandonment. Founded in 1985, the Company began as collaboration between Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith. After meeting in the companies of Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais, they went on to create their first choreography during a Fulbright Lectureship in Helsinki, Finland. Since then Shapiro and Smiths blend of contemporary dance and dramatic theater has elicited enthusiastic receptions across the U.S., Europe, Asia and Canada. The Company has been presented by major festivals and venues including the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Dance Theater Workshop, St. Marks DanSpace Project, PS 122, Festival di Milano, Teatro de Danza in Mexico City, Recklinghausen RuhrFestSpiele, and the Korean International Festival.

The GUTHRIE THEATER (Joe Dowling, Director) was founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie in 1963 and is an American center for theater performance, production, education and professional training. The Tony Award-winning Guthrie Theater is dedicated to producing the great works of dramatic literature, developing the work of contemporary playwrights and cultivating the next generation of theater artists. With annual attendance of nearly 500,000 people, the Guthrie Theater presents a mix of classic plays and contemporary work on its three stages. Under the artistic leadership of Joe Dowling since 1995, the Guthrie continues to set a national standard for excellence in theatrical production and performance. In 2006, the Guthrie opened its new home on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, the Guthrie Theater houses three state-of-the-art stages, production facilities, classrooms and dramatic public lobbies. www.guthrietheater.org

Seena Hodges 612.225.6142

seenah@guthrietheater.org

Quinton Skinner 612.225.6140

quintons@guthrietheater.org

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