Overground Physical Theatre Company Presents BEEHAVE Tonight

Overground Physical Theatre Company presents "BeeHave" - a contemporary ritual to honor bees. The interdisciplinary work explores how the behavior of honey bees - their iconic waggle dance, compound vision, swarming intelligence and ability to function synergistically can guide us into making choices aligned with our inner purpose and the collective needs of the planet. Tonight, October 11th, 8 pm. @ The Ailey Citigroup Theater.

Ultra-contemporary choreography, holographic video associations, absurd narrative and urban ritual weave a multidimensional tapestry of evocative text, moving sound, and captivating image to create a hybrid work that transcends the post-modern and ushers into the spectacle of "Hyper-mediacy".

The drama presents the story of an unborn baby identifies with the social roles it is destined to become in order to win a presidential race. In choosing whether to be the go-getter or the quitter, the dreamer or the outcast it discovers striking analogies between humans and bees - the human brain and its neurons behaving like a swarm of bees. From the womb the baby puts its four potentialities to test - driving them to hang over the edge, redefining their notion of space and place, of here and there, and urging them to find "the way" through a maze of choices. The striking social, political and cultural discrepancies between the human and the natural world explode into a global lawsuit between Bees and Humans where the baby presides as a judge. From the womb the baby recognizes the futility of war - "it is useless to take sides, as all ways lead to the hive". As the bees disappear from the surface of the Earth due to human negligence and greed, the baby's food supply is cut and an unprecedented "bee-pocalypse" threatens the Earth. People have only four years to live....one term in office....unless....they rethink their choices and bring life back.

Dancing our collective rhythm and re-toning the world Overground Physical Theater Company sheds territories, tongues and tribal boundaries, as it courts the natural wisdom and tends our global bee hive. How can we learn from bees to not react impulsively to life, but instead respond coherently? How can we alter our approach to life as we shift from competition to cooperation, from having to being, from selfishness to self-sacrifice, from an independent society to a caring, interdependent community?

By Bee-Having, by seeing the world from multiple perspectives, by sharing common ground wisely, by tending to nature and ourselves lovingly, by cross-pollinating ideas creatively, by responding to life situations coherently, by team-working efficiently... so we can prepare our "Concorde Swarm" for its flight to the new HOME.

Visionary film makers Ana & Kalin Ivanov; dance- theater mavericks Valentina Priolo & Antonia Katrandjieva; performing art iconoclasts Gessica Paperini, Motoko Tadano, Richard Schandola have swarmed up with mystic arche-polyphonist Bisan Toron, hypnotic fire dancer and actress Eugenia Radilova and boutique costume designer Hristina Hristova to create a cutting-edge "hologram" of associative magic and existential depth.