Announcement of Fusebox Festival 2010 Lineup

The festival begins on April 21, as choreographer Allison Orr and composer Graham Reynolds — two inimitable Austin talents — collaborate to stage a Texas-sized country swing band playing for hundreds of two-steppers (your participation is welcome!) on the steps of the Texas State Capitol.

Here’s the rest of the Fusebox line-up so far (but expect updates and additions!):

• Big Dance Theater, ‘Comme Toujours: Here I Stand,’ a dance theatre re-invention of Agnes Varda’s classic New Wave film about a critical moment in the life of a marginally talented pop singer.
• Kaiji Moriyama, ‘The Velvet Suite,’ The U.S. premiere by one of Japan’s most acclaimed contemporary dancers.  (Presented in conjunction with testPerformancetest)
• Theater Replacement, ‘WeeTube,’ part performance, part parlor game by a Vancouver-based performance troupe, ‘WeeTube’ uses the publicly posted comments of popular YouTube Videos as performance text.
• Daniel Barrow, ‘Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry,’ a video-based performance by the Winnipeg-based artist that combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city.
• Greg Brooker, ‘Texan,’ a site specific poem constructed of text, paper, one million newspapers, a crop duster, a taxi cab, the geographical expanse of the state of Texas and twin brothers.
• John Kelly, ‘Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell.’ The brilliant two-time Obie Award winning artist John Kelly once again inhabits the persona of Joni Mitchell in an entirely new evening of songs and stories.
  
  
• Luke Savisky, ‘Stepchild,’ a new video installation by the Austin artist.
• Kristen Kosmas with Physical Plant Theare, ‘This From Cloudland,’ a new love story.
• Action Hero, ‘A Western,’ is a performance for a bar, a celebration of a failure to capture the true size and majesty of the Wild West.
• Phil Soltanoff, ‘LA Party,’ a performance video about a fanatical vegan who slides off the wagon one night, falling head first into a wild L.A. bender.
• ArtGravelGroup, ‘Gravel Works,’ Montreal-based troupe performs a live music and dance showcase of moods, humour, bodies, pop songs, personalities and friendly impertinence. (Presented in conjunction with testPerformancetest)
• Mike Smith, a new video installation by the renowned video/performance artist
• Wura Ogunji, ‘one hundred black women, one hundred actions,’ a performance of critical actions, gestures and movements from 100 black women around the world —performed in East Austin, projected live in West Austin.
• Heloise Gold, Austin-based dancer/choreographer
• Okay Mountain, award winning Austin art collective
• Rubber Rep, the always surprising and inventive Austin theater collective
• Rude Mechs, Austin's renowned theater collective

Fusebox presents innovative artistic experiences to spark new ideas and ways of looking at the world. Fusebox is ready to start creating new avenues of conversation that bridge various art forms, audiences, and geography for the 2010 Festival taking place April 21 - May 1.

Presenting Sponsor: ABPorter.org