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CIRCO
ZERO
intimate spectacular circus
Directed by Keith Hennessy
PRESS QUOTES ON KEITH HENNESSY'S PREVIOUS WORK
"Keith Hennessy's stage presence burns; he ignites any subject he tackles.
Sacred, violent, and compassionate impulses shape our everyday lives;
it is through a genius like Hennessy, though, that we can confront the
state of the human contradiction."
--Katia
Noyes, SF Weekly
"Keith Hennessy is a gifted, thoughtful performer. . . unsparing in his scrutiny of an array of injustices."
--Rita
Felciano, SF Bay Guardian
CAHIN-CAHA, Cirque Bâtard
"this radical, magnificent work, that is both avant-garde and popular."
--Jean-Michel
Guy, Les arts de la piste (Paris)
"raWdoG is a staggering spectacle, that forgets all artistic forms to create another that is tremendously free."
--Dernières
Nouvelles (Mulhouse)
"Yes, something is happening: different, charming, indefinable. These well-read hyper clowns speak even of war, of everything and nothing, but without heaviness, with successful provocations of argumentative children. Not a masterpiece, but a fine piece, that imitates no one and opens new circles to circus."
--Le
Parisien
"All is done with precision, on the edge of a razor."
--Pariscope
"raWdoG transgresses the daily banality that gnaws little by little at our humanness, to transport it beyond all, into a universe of beauty and disturbing reflection."
--Télérama (Paris)
ICE CAR CAGE
"A ruggedly beautiful site-specific quartet for Hennessy, Curtis, Beckman, and a dented (driverless) car that relentlessly and slowly circled a parking lot while the three men hurtled over and under the moving vehicle. Ice Car Cage lingers in memory for its texture of danger and pain."
--Janice
Ross, Dance Magazine
"Cheaper than Cirque du Soleil and equally amazing."
--Bay
Area Reporter
"Wily absurdity. . . poetic folly. . . fiercely athletic movement on and around the ice and the car, these three dancing clowns, with only the sky as their tent, seem to be making a nouveau cirque of their own."
--Ann
Murphy, The Oakland Tribune
"Nowhere is this intermingling of the acrobatic with the poetic more successfully expressed than in the award-winning Ice Car Cage."
--SF
Bay Guardian
UNSAFE UNSUITED
"Their effort, their courage, and their intimacy are shocking and moving. What pulls the piece together is the tension between the men's fierce physicality and the inherent utopianism of Contact Improvisation. Although their close interactions - often crazily timed or delivered with needless force - may give an illusion of recklessness, possessiveness, and cruelty, they are built on skill, cooperation, and affection. They attest, in fact, to the survival, however tattered and compromised, of trust."
--Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice