Second show added for sensational sold-out Compagnie Kafig in their North American debut at the National Arts Centre!
October 14, 2003 -
OTTAWA -- As a result of audience demand for tickets, a second performance for Compagnie Kafig, the extraordinary hip-hop company from France, has been added in February. Seven French dancers of Algerian descent take the dynamic language of hip-hop and give it a spectacular multicultural twist. Widely acclaimed across Europe, Compagnie Kafig (under Artistic Director Mourad Mezouki) integrates athletic street movement with stylized French, North African, and Andalusian choreography -- as well as capoeira, mime, and gymnastics. Celebrated for their humour, energy, and virtuosity as well as stunning stage spectacles incorporating music and elaborate lighting, sets and props, the company's new creation, Corps est Graphique, questions social roles and the place of women in the hip-hop universe. Compagnie Kafig will now perform Corps est Graphique (in its North American premiere) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 as well as on the originally scheduled date of Wednesday February 18. Both shows take place in the Theatre of the National Arts Centre at 20:30.
" Magnificent…Kafig offers something fresh…it's music made visual."
Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times
Tickets are $40, $37 and $29, and $21, $19.50 and $15.50 for students (upon presentation of a valid student ID card). Tickets for Compagnie Kafig, or any other NAC Dance performance, are available at the NAC Box Office (in person) and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at (613) 755-1111; Ticket-master may also be accessed through the NAC's web-site at www.nac-cna.ca. Last-minute tickets (subject to availability) for full-time students are $9.50 at the Live Rush Centre in the NAC Foyer after 18:00 on the day of performance only, upon presentation of a valid `Live Rush' card.
Photos for all dance events can be viewed and downloaded at: www.nac-cna.ca/media/
