OctaviaCup.org

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Octavia Cup Dance Theatre - dance company in New York City

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Recipe for Octavia Cup: Take one part technical virtuosity add a mishmash of performance components, several languages, a slash of deconstructed text, a pinch of opera,18 pointe shoes, sprinkle in nine cups of crazy, top it off with fierce perseverance and determination. Mix all ingredients well, stir, simmer and brew, flavor with social commentary to taste. After 6 months, turn the heat up to infinity, blast off, and serve in fancy shiny red A, B, C and D cups.

Mission Statement: The mission of Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre is to create and present high-octane avant-garde dance theater that reaches people in a visual and visceral way. The company, founded in 1998, approaches performance in a richly textured manner which includes text, music, voice and installation art. Social and political elements are incorporated. What adds to the unusual style of Octavia Cup is the fact that all of the dancing is done on pointe, pushing pointe work into bold new frontiers, knocking it off balance, moving it out of the vertical dimension, while presenting it in highly visual frameworks full of surprise and invention. Breaking away from outdated aesthetics of body type Octavia Cup consists of dancers of all shapes and sizes. Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre aims to present work all around the world reaching out to communities that have little prior dance exposure.

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