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BIOME
October 9-12 at Joyce SoHo

"ingenious" -- New York Times (on Within Outer Spaces)

"A naked dancer unfurls herself towards the Sun, capturing with uncanny precision the jerky grace of a plant in a time-lapse movie." -- Nature Magazine

"truly groundbreaking...fresh, original food for the mind, as well as the heart." -- SF Bay Guardian

"American performance group Capacitor are a most unusual bunch... just allow yourself to be entertained - hugely." --The Scotsman

"Some call it modern dance, others a religious experience." -- Citysearch

"alarmingly good" -- Village Voice (on Digging in the Dark)

San Francisco's acclaimed physical dance theater company CAPACITOR returns to New York with their latest synthesis of dance, science, and interactive media, BIOME. Choreographed by Jodi Lomask, performances run October 9 - 12 at Joyce SoHo.

BIOME explores the cooperation and communication which occurs between different species in nature. Part dance, part projected glimpses of remote rainforests, and part canopy science, the piece grew from an on-location collaboration with renowned canopy tree scientists in the Monteverde Cloud Forest of Costa Rica. In the world of BIOME, ties between humans and our planet become abundantly clear; everything is interconnected in a cycle of growth. BIOME brings a sense of wonderment to the delicate ecosystems which exist within our increasingly fragile world.

BIOME is danced by Cari Bellinghausen, Lizelle Gouws, Jocelynn Rudig, Ross

Hollenkamp, Noe Serrano, and Jodi Lomask. The production features a film by Amy Harrison, shot by Dan Zox; live violin by Julia Ogrydziak; visuals design by Nate Pagel; sound design by Roberto Salvatore from sound elements by Michael Zbyszyński, Tarik O'Regan, and Andrew May; costumes by Jodi Lomask, Kimmie Sako, Monique Kapp, and Tevya Tufford; props by Jodi Lomask and Mark Metz; and set design by Jodi Lomask and Adam Puglielli.

Since 1997, CAPACITOR artists have been collaborating with members of the scientific community to create mind-expanding, heart-gripping live performance. Capacitor artists share a love of scientific ideas and a desire to incorporate them into imaginative live performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor artists have become masters of rigging systems, wearable sculpture, and large-scale prop design. Under the direction of Jodi Lomask, past works have tackled the creation of the universe (Within Outer Spaces, 2001); geology (Digging in the Dark, 2005); the future of mankind (future species, 2000); and video gaming (Avatars, 2002). Through performance, Capacitor encourages audiences of all ages to see patterns and relationships inherent in nature and the cosmos. The company endeavors to transcend cultural barriers, thus widening the scope of basic human experience.

Capacitor was last seen in New York in 2005, when Digging in the Dark was presented Off-Broadway. Capacitor has been produced nationally at venues in Illinois, Kentucky, Florida, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada. Internationally they have appeared in Malaysia, Canada, Jamaica, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Scotland. The company will perform at the TED conference this coming February 2009 in Long Beach California. They are also working on Urban Canopy, a site specific project with the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. For more information visit www.Capacitor.org.

CAPACITOR in BIOME runs runs October 9-12, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. Joyce SoHo is located at 155 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince Streets, accessible from the F,V,B,D trains at Broadway/Lafayette, R train from Prince or 6 train from Bleecker.) Running time is 70 minutes. Tickets are $25; $18 for students, available at 212-352-3101 or Joyce.org.

The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Joyce SoHo is supported by private funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and The Starr Foundation; and by public funds from the New York City Council; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Special support for Joyce SoHo provided by the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of the Reader's Digest Association, The Greenwall Foundation, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.