Broke-ass Stuart calls FURY "Impressive and Intense"

“You remember the film Mad Max Fury Road, the mad chase through a post-apocalyptic desert that broke all sorts of cinematic rules and won a half a dozen Oscars?  Well, producer & dance filmmaker Kate Duhamel has produced a live action version of it to be performed in the round, chalk full of San Francisco Ballet & King Lines dancers, using the state of the art sound system at The Midway, a ton of multimedia effects, and live music performed by rock/pop band Yassou.  Are you following?  It sounds incredible, because it is.  The combination of artistry and multimedia is inventive, immersive, intensive, and plenty of other adjectives that start with the letter ‘i’, in fact I intend to use a lot of ‘i’ words in this preview.

When you cover as many events as I do, you rarely get very excited for a performance, but after hanging out at a Fury dance rehearsal and interviewing the band, I am legitimately inspired and excited for the show, and I’m not even being paid to say so.”

Read the rest of the article here: https://brokeassstuart.com/2018/09/11/the-immersive-intense-mad-max-ballet-fury/

San Francisco Chronicle Datebook features FURY

Immersive San Francisco show ‘Fury’ reimagines Mad Max and ballet

As the mainstream ballet world frets about staying relevant, San Francisco filmmaker and producer Kate Duhamel is taking the art form’s future into her own hands. With the new immersive ballet-rock show “Fury,” she is pushing the art form all the way to the apocalypse.

Inspired by the feature film “Mad Max: Fury Road,” George Miller’s Oscar-winning survivalist flick starring Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as fellow antihero Furiosa, “Fury” spins a one-hour survivalist romance that leaves classical fairy tales in the dust.

“We’ll be in the desert, we’ll have explosions and sandstorms,” Duhamel says. “We’re trying to situate ballet into a new context.” The Dogpatch club/performance space the Midway provides the context for the Friday-Saturday, Sept. 14-15, premiere of Duhamel’s take on “Max,” reimagined with in-the-round staging, concert-style standing room and two bars (after all, one does get parched out in the salt flats).

The “we” she refers to is a crack team of creative accomplices: pop-art-rock band Yassou and violinist Kristina Dutton, star dancers from Lines Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, choreographer Danielle Rowe, costume designer Vasily Vein, creative director Luke Acret and art director/animator Brandon McFarland.

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Haute Living promotes FURY

“This dream team of creative minds and movers promises to put on a thrilling and not-to-be-missed event. The opportunity is to broaden and open up the way that dance is presented. So the collaboration on creating a new work with a band is an opportunity waiting to happen. Audiences are looking for more layered live experiences. They want an experience that stretches them, that feels new and like new partnerships are happening, and with new elements added. It’s an exciting thing to do in person.”

IVY Magazine Interviews FURY Producer Kate Duhamel

To read the full interview visit: http://magazine.ivy.com/2018/09/furious-new-direction-ballet/

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