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Resistance Is Useless is Creature Theater's new distopian sci-fi dance comedy, using fitness culture as a metaphor for the liberation of the body. “Resistance” is used here in its sense as "strength training" as well as its sense of "opposition", and is meant to invite political and psychological interpretations.

Inspired by health magazines and sports movies, Team Creature is preparing for the big game. We are in a near-future fitness boot camp that may be an actual boot camp. We are In It To Win It, we know that Practice Makes Perfect and that there is No Gain Without Pain. Team practice includes feats of strength and endurance, drills for precision and adaptability, emotionally as well as musculoskeletally--performed as a blend of postmodern dance, physical theater, and aerobics.

CJ Holm is a dance artist, teacher, and aspiring gardener based in Brooklyn. CJ has shown work at BAX, Chez Bushwick, Dixon Place, Galapagos, and the World Financial Center. CJ is the recipient of a 2010 PILLAR space grant through Bodyart Studios. Creature Theater prioritizes bodily autonomy in its creative practice. Creature's work is balanced between physically adventurous movement invention and an ongoing investigation into human strategies, limitations, motivations, and dreams.

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"The Untempered Violin" seeks to explore the ephemeral, undefineable, beautifully unruly sounds that can emenate from a violin. Violin as untempered sound source. Of course included in the price of admission will be the usual notes that violins normally play, but the listener will also hear unearthly, microtonal, off the grid sounds which violins naturally are capable of. Violinist and prestidigitator, David Ryther will start the program off with the scintillating virtuosity of Salvatore Sciarrino's ghostly Sei Cappricci. Six capprices which explore the rarefied world of violin harmonics. The sounds emerge out of a haze as if Pagannini himself were playing from the grave. Next Mr Ryther and his colleague from the intrepid Presidio String Quartet, Deborah Katz will treat the audience to the duos for two violins by Luciano Berio which playfully explore extended techniques and also create character sketches of Berio's closest freinds and colleagues. On the second half Mr Ryther and two dancers from the experimental Dance Theater troupe Dandelion Dance Theater will present ""aftershock"" a new piece of Dance Theater in which music making and dance literally collide, where boundaries between dance, theater and music break down and blur. To end the program Mr. Ryther will present his ""Six Etudes for solo violin."" Completed in 2009, these six concert etudes represent a virtuosic and probing exploration of the violin and some of its limitless possibilities. Featuring: David Ryther, violin -Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "Vivid and Extraordinary" Eric Kupers, dancer -Dandelion Dancetheater co artistic-director/ensemble director/performer Julia Hollas, dancer -San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Dandelion Dancetheater and Alyce Finwall Dance Theater. Deborah Katz, violin -founding member of the bay area's Presidio String Quartet