Pavel Zuštiak’s new evening-length performance work HEBEL is a collaboration with scenographer Keith Skretch, composer Christian Frederickson, and lighting designer Joe Levasseur. Taking its title from the ancient Book of Ecclesiastes, HEBEL interrogates the text’s key question: “What do you gain from all your work?” Through an interdisciplinary, strongly visual and textured approach, Zuštiak mines themes of human ambition, meaning and identity, reflecting on human effort and and individual life’s worth.
Reflecting the scale and proportions of the HEBEL’s ontological questions and informed by Michel Foucault’s writings on docile bodies, power, and heterotopias, HEBEL draws us into an evocative, emotionally charged exploration of life’s quest for meaning where the turbulent past and present are alive and the future is envisioned.
Date + Time
Date + Time
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Friday Apr 17, 20207:30 PM
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Saturday Apr 18, 20207:30 PM
About
About
Support for Skirball Moves programming is provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
Gallery
Gallery
Photo: Maria Baranova
Photo: Maria Baranova
Photo: Maria Baranova
Photo: Maria Baranova
Photo: Maria Baranova
Photo: Maria Baranova
The artist
The artist
Pavel Zuštiak
Pavel Zuštiak is a Slovak-American creative director, choreographer, and performer. Born in communist Czechoslovakia, he left for Amsterdam shortly after the Velvet Revolution and currently resides in New York City. His works include Custodians of Beauty, Endangered Pieces and The Painted Bird trilogy. Zuštiak’s many awards include several Princess Grace Awards and the Juried Bessie Award for his “poetic layering of movement and visual imagery, conceiving the stage as a decentralized world in which the corporeal body is the focus and canvas for a wide range of human expression.” His five-hour trilogy The Painted Bird received a 2013 Bessie nomination for Outstanding Production.
Support
Support
NYU Skirball’s educational and enrichment programming is made possible in part with generous support from Con Edison.
