SPACE PANORAMA Opens Today At At The Public Theater’s 2010 Under the Radar Festival

Acclaimed British director and performer Andrew Dawson will bring his show, SPACE PANORAMA, to the Public Theater's 2010 Under the Radar Festival. SPACE PANORAMA will run January 7-17 at the Public Theater. In SPACE PANORAMA, Dawson recreates a documentary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing using only his hands and a black-draped table. Accompanied by Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and a dramatic, lively narration, Dawson takes audiences from Houston to the moon and returns them safely to Earth, conveying the colossal distances and the risks involved simply through his skilled hand movements.

SPACE PANORAMA is presented with support from Broadway Across America.

Dawson has performed SPACE PANORAMA at theaters and theater festivals throughout the world, most recently at the Kennedy Center to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11. In 2000, Dawson performed SPACE PANORAMA at a reunion dinner for astronauts in Houston, receiving accolades from Buzz Aldrin and John Young, among others. The Times (London) has declared, "Dawson's long mobile hands, like wave-particles in a nuclear physics, contrive to be one thing and its opposite, rigidly suggesting ship or rocket, incredibly undulant for anything watery. His movements also convey scale. This is real artistry, finely imagined and brilliantly executed." According to The London Evening Standard, "Anyone who had trouble creating a rabbit show on a wall will be astounded by Andrew Dawson's creation of life, the universe, and everything using only his hands."

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Andrew is a theatre director, performer, Feldenkrais practitioner and hand model. He studied dance with Merce Cunningham in New York and theatre in Paris with Phillipe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Jacques Lecoq. Andrew created and performs, ‘Space Panorama' (1987) the story of the Apollo 11 moon landing told with only his hands, ‘Quatre Mains' (1998) which was recently revived for a season at UCLA, Los Angeles in Dec 2008, and his award winning solo show ‘Absence and Presence' (2005) performing at PS 122 in New York April 2006, which is a deeply intimate and touching portrayal on the death of his father. He also created and directed the stage show of ‘Wallace and Gromit' (1995),'Amnesia Curiosa' for Rainpan 43 (2008 Studio Theatre Washington DC) and fabrik Potsdam's award winning ‘Pandora 88.'(2003). He directed and co devised ‘The Idiot Girls' with Redcape Theatre Company, which won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival 2008, and is currently on tour. In 2008/09 Andrew Choreographed the Opera Dr. Atomic for the MET, New York and ENO, London. He is currently working on The Pearl Fishers for the ENO (production 2010).

Broadway Across America is owned and operated by British theatre producer John Gore (CEO) and entertainment industry veteran Thomas B. McGrath (Chairman). Broadway Across America presents first-class touring Broadway musicals and plays, family productions and other live events throughout a network of 40 North American cities. Under the supervision of Beth Williams (COO & Head of Production), Broadway Across America is also dedicated to the development and production of new and diverse live theatre for productions on Broadway, across America and throughout the world. Recent productions include Hair, West Side Story, Memphis, Irving Berlin's White Christmas and the West End production of Breakfast At Tiffany's. Upcoming Broadway productions include Promises, Promises, Million Dollar Quartet and Minsky's. Touring productions include Nickelodeon's Storytime Live featuring Dora the Explorer and Dreamgirls. For more information on Broadway Across America or to purchase tickets through an authorized agent go to BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.

The performance schedule for SPACE PANORAMA is as follows:
Thurs. Jan 7th at 3pm; Fri. Jan 8th at 7pm; Sat. Jan 9th at 9:30pm; Sun. Jan 10th at 4:30pm; Tues. Jan 12th at 7pm; Thurs. Jan 14th at 7pm; Sat. Jan 16th at 7pm; Sun. Jan 17th at 1pm

SPACE PANORAMA runs approximately 30 minutes with no intermission.

$15 single tickets are on-sale now at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street; online at www.publictheater.org or by phone at 212-967-7555. Seating for all UTR shows at The Public is general admission. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm, and Sunday and Monday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. For more information, visit www.publictheater.org

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