“LIVES OF OUR TIMES” BRINGS DANCE AND (FAR) BEYOND TO THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

WHAT: The world premiere of “Lives of Our Times”
at the Hollywood Fringe Festival: two one-act
Dance/Theater works united by dissolved boundaries
of time and space. Act I, “Rockaway Beach,
or so I Recall," is a highly-personal, maybe-true
tale of 1960s summers, and more, while Act II,
“automatRon” is a dance experiment set in a
post-apocalyptic world. Dance, spoken word, live music
and walking paintings juxtapose the two views on life
before and after to tell the tale.

WHO: Choreographers/Directors Caitlyn Carradine (Lace Theater)and
Judy Pisarro-Grant (La Danserie).

WHERE: The Actors Company Theater, Mainstage
916a N. Formosa Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90046

WHEN: Thursday, June 16th and Thursday, June 23rd, 8:00 PM

TICKETS: $15.00
Purchase: on-line: www.hollywoodfringe.org;
search under “Lives of Our Times”
by phone: 323-455-4585

“Lives of Our Times” is Caitlyn Carradine and Judy Pisarro-Grant’s first collaboration. The two have created critically acclaimed works for dance and theater in New York and Los Angeles (Pisarro-Grant) and internationally (Carradine). Immediately recognizing each other as kindred spirits when they met, Carradine and Pisarro-Grant dreamed up this dance/theater/extravaganza in order to share, mix and re-shape their individual visions into a more or less perfect union. The result is “Lives Of Our Times,” an evening-length program that presents Carradine and Pisarro-Grants’ juxtaposed meditations on life before and life after through two, one-act, multi-media events.

Act I, Pisarro-Grant’s “Rockaway Beach, or so I recall” recounts a highly personal, maybe-true version of early 1960s summers in Rockaway Beach, NY with random musings on self, family and Other Stuff along the way. Dance, spoken word, live music and walking paintings tell the tale.

Act II, Carradine’s “automatRon,” in consideration of the crossroads our world is currently digesting, mashes-up the classic ballet Coppelia and the horror book Frankenstein, with a symbolic robotic nod to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and eerie echoes of an underlying whimsical theme a la Sleeping Beauty. Set in a post-apocalyptic world this choreographic and performative exploration delves into a multi-media, interactive experience.

“…Carradine just might be the future. …keep an eye on this one. She’s going to grow rapidly.” (VC Reporter, 2005 L.A.C.E. Theater’s “Parallel Universe Theory”).

“…Judy Pisarro-Grant’s stunning choreography…” (Backstage 2009 review of the Miracle Worker, Edgemar Center for the Arts).