Tableaux is a contemporary circus-dance-theater performance incorporating contortion, dance, aerial acrobatics and humor. The five female artist’s work together toward freedom while the audience embarks on a poetic and visually enticing journey where expectations bend, movement twists and the body encapsulates the imagination in a mentally and physically spell-binding theatrical adventure.
TABLEAUX is a 70 minute show featuring five women inquiring about confinement and freedom, while finding themselves constrained on an island of boxes, trapped by the constrictions of society and themselves. Faced with numerous challenges set before them the artists collectively harness their physicality and ingenuity to overcome these limitations by empowering and igniting their resourcefulness.
Tableaux made its debut at the VIVA FEST Vegas International Arts Festival, followed by a run of performances at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. We were featured guest artists with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance in Taylor Mac’s show A 24 -Decade History of Popular Music at the Theater at The Ace Hotel and at the Hammer Museum both in Los Angeles. Tableaux was additionally featured in American Dance Abroad Pitch Book celebrating the best in new American Dance companies. Troupe Vertigo is also one of 10 internationally selected circus companies chosen to join Montreal's Cirque Festival as part of their Tour de Piste in 2018.
Colleague Reviews
"Conceived and directed by Aloysia Gavre , this work is part of an ongoing commitment to create moving and intimate pieces through which audiences are both captivated by the environment and the artists skills. We may experience moments of visual shock onstage that seem to separate us as viewers from the performers, but the work is all-encompassing as gradually envelopes us with a comforting sense of synchronicity and unity, ultimately bringing us together."
-Alex Matthews Dance Resource Center- Director of Programming
"Tableaux perfectly captures everything a choreographer strives for; taking a familiar medium and making it entirely new. This new work breaks molds, opens minds and leaves you wanting to be the first to see where where it will take you next."
- Michael Pena Associate Choreographer- 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Tableaux was collectively created by numerous female artists who each contributed their artistry to its development over time. Our gratitude runs deep for their collaborative spirit.
Sarah Sporich, Gana Oyuchimeg, Darielle Williams, Nata Ibragimov, Lauren Stark, Leslie Vaughn, Manon Chaney, Elizabeth Fraley, Anna Micklea, Kate Minwegen, Lauren Cicirone, Ebonee Le Triece & Nicole Reineman.
