Kanopy Redux: No Limits

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Pascal Rioult in rehearsal with Kanopy Dance Company, March 2022.

April 18 update: Kanopy Dance Company is postponing its April 22-24 performances of Kanopy Redux: No Limits at the Overture Center for the Arts until October 20-23, 2022. Several positive cases of Covid-19 have been identified among members of the production’s technical and artistic team, despite strict adherence to comprehensive Covid safety protocols that have been in place during the two-month rehearsal process (that exceeded some 200 hours) for the show.

While Kanopy is deeply disappointed to make this announcement and extends its apologies to audience members for any inconvenience, the health and safety of our larger community is paramount. With the challenging demands and close physical interactions required during the rehearsals and performances of Kanopy Redux: No Limits, we must ensure a safe environment for our artists, director, and crew to come together as they prepare to take the stage and after the curtain rises. 

We are grateful that we have been able to obtain commitments from our guest director, Pascal, and guest artists to return for the October 20-23, 2022, run of Kanopy Redux: No Limits that will open Kanopy’s 2022-23 mainstage season at the Overture Center for the Arts. 

The Overture Center Box Office will reach out to all Kanopy Redux: No Limits ticket holders to facilitate the exchange of tickets for the rescheduled production in October or for a full refund. 

7:30 pm on 4/22, 5 & 8 pm on 4/23 and 1 & 4 pm, 4/24, Overture Center-Promenade Hall. $40 ($20 ages 18 & under).

media release: Don’t Miss Impossibly Exquisite Dance and Pascal Rioult’s Restaging of his iconic “Views of the Fleeting World” in Kanopy’s  Redux: No Limits

Kanopy Redux: No Limits (April 22-24, 2022) is a debut of reconstructed works as well as iconic Kanopy favorites. Expect impossibly exquisite physical dance that will defy the limits for human movement. Restaged works will include Lisa Thurrell’s poignant “Cassandra’s Cry", and Robert E. Cleary’s joyful “Primavera”, and the bold + spirited “Bound and Determined”.

In a major coup, Kanopy also commissioned the legendary NYC modern dancer and choreographer, Pascal Rioult, (Rioult), who was a principal dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company and interpreted many of the most prestigious roles in the Graham repertory), to restage his signature masterwork, “Views of the Fleeting World’, (“Views” ), for the April concert. 

Rioult completed a two-week guest residency at the end of March in Madison at Kanopy, choreographing “Views” on the Kanopy Dance Company. Co-artistic directors  Robert E. Cleary and Lisa Thurrell, Kanopy Company members & our two guest stars from Chicago and NYC, (Solomon Bowser and Brad Orego), described the experience as: “exhilarating”, “exhausting” and “incredibly inspiring”.

Kanopy is the first and only professional dance company, other than the Rioult Dance New York,  to perform  this technically and emotionally demanding work. Rioult commented that Kanopy's potential to master this difficult, seven segment dance suite was evident even in these early stages of rehearsal.

That  is truly a testament to their talent, highly disciplined Kanopy rehearsals and training, and to Mr. Rioult’s creative direction.