Inbal Pinto Dance Company's SHAKER Comes to the Joyce Theater

The Joyce Theater will present a week long season of the Inbal Pinto Dance Company's full evening work, Shaker.  A collaboration between Co-Artistic Directors Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, this engagement will begin on Tuesday, November 11 and run through Sunday, November 16.  The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue in Chelsea.  To purchase tickets, please call JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or via the internet at www.Joyce.org.  

Shaker, the dance-theater piece by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, is rich in poetic imagination, interspersed with unique humor and intellectual thought.  The work was created to look and feel like an eerily beautiful winter day; a scene taken out of a shaken, snow-filled glass ball. On a stage inhabited by tiny figures and maquettes, there are three small gray huts from which the dancers - clad in black or colored bodysuits - appear and disappear mysteriously.  Quiet and still at the beginning, the world inside the shaker is magical and enchanted, but not necessarily happy, containing both good and evil, joy and sadness.  

Inbal Pinto (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Director) was born in Israel in 1969, and began her formal dance training at age 13.  She studied graphic arts at The Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, and worked as a graphic designer for her army service.  As a dancer, she first joined The Bat Sheva Ensemble and was promoted to the senior Bat Sheva Company.  In 1990, she began her career as a choreographer, and was invited to The American Dance Festival to take part in its International Choreographers Program in both 1997 and 1998.  In 2000, she won a Bessie – the New York Dance and Performance Award – for her creation "Wrapped," and was also given Israel's Ministry of Culture Award for Dance and the Tel Aviv Municipal Award for Artistic achievements in 2000. Additionally throughout her career Pinto has created the choreography for several theatrical works, such as The Chairs and Romeo and Juliet. 

Avshalom Pollack (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Director) was born in Israel in 1970.  The son of well-known Israeli actor Yossi Pollak, he spent time observing his father from backstage, developing an understanding early on of the commitment and drive needed to create a high-quality theatrical experience for an audience.  He was trained as a classical actor and graduated from The Nissan Nativ Drama School in Tel-Aviv.  He has acted in a large number of films and television programs as well as many theatrical plays at The Habimah National Theater, The Cameri Theater, Gesher Theater and The Haifa Municipal Theater.  Roles have included Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Casssio in Othello, Valere in The Miser, Tuzenbach in Three Sisters, Phillip in Orphans and many others.  
 
Inbal Pinto Dance Company's Shaker will play Tuesday & Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday & Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:30pm.  Free post-performance "Humanities" dialogue following the Wednesday performance. New this fall season, The Joyce has updated its pricing structure to help make dance accessible to a wider audience. Scaling the theater in three tiers, tickets for these performances are $19; $35; $49 (for Joyce Members $26; $37), and can be arranged by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or online at www.Joyce.org.  For more information about the Inbal Pinto Dance Company, including tour schedule, please visit www.InbalPinto.com.  The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street.

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