DECADE AT A GLANCE Plays Teatro IATI 7/10, 7/11

Acclaimed Dustbowl Drama Returns DECADE AT A GLANCE July 10 & 11 at Teatro IATI. After acclaimed productions in New York and New Orleans this spring, Teatro IATI's Performing Arts Marathon 2010 will present a return engagement of DECADE AT A GLANCE, created, directed, and choreographed by Joan Evans. Originally developed and presented by the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre (MAD) at Stella Adler Studio, this blend of theatrical documentary and folk musical is inspired by the 1930's Dustbowl photographs of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.

DECADE AT A GLANCE is an epic story of a few families in the Dustbowl, circa 1936, who are uprooted from their farmland by drought, dust storms and mortgage foreclosure. Making the treacherous journey out west as migrant workers, these ordinary hard working people -- some
with hopes dashed, and dreams deferred or dissolved -- ultimately join the union marches. Unfolding like a series of living photographs, the story, told from the point of view of a Dustbowl survivor, is related through songs, movement, and interviews preserved from the 1930's.

The similarities and differences between the Great Depression, and our own times, are self evident when we listen to simple people tell their stories. The gestural and expressive movement evokes images of the time. The actors sing and play the violin, flute, guitar, and ukulele. The music combines Depression-era songs, union march songs from the 1930's, and original vocal harmonies.

The cast of 14 includes Laura Carbonell, Erika Cazeneuve, Annie Chang, Aidan Koehler, Gaja Massaro, Rafa Miguel, Tommy Nelms, Sean Powell, Lulu Rossbacher, Melanie Siegel, Margaux Susi, Elise Toscano, Cynthia Vazquez, and Sarah Wharton with lighting by Brian Tovar, costumes by
Katja Andreiev, vocal director Elise Toscano and stage manager Breanna Stroud.

Joan Evans has been creating and performing original physical theatre work since 1975. She won a Fringe First Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for creating, directing, and choreographing the ensemble piece Where Ravens Rule, a theatrical response to the war in Bosnia. She has toured her solo work in Austria, Brazil, and Germany. She has performed her work at such theatres as the Performing Garage and Manhattan Class Company in NYC, and the EuGene O'Neill Theatre Center In Connecticut. She has been the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Grants. She was awarded a 1993, Citation of Excellence from the Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA) for her work combining dance, acting, and puppetry in Rico and Dolores. She has taught and directed at Stella Adler for two decades.

DECADE AT A GLANCE runs Sat, July 10th at 10PM and Sunday, July 11th at 8PM. Teatro IATI is located at 64 East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves -- accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave, #6 to Astor Place or R train to Broadway). Tickets are $20, available at 212-505-6757 or
www.TeatroIATI.org.

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