PIFOF

$10 TICKETS FOR STUDENTS &
EVERYONE 25 and UNDER!


See the world in a new way:
Performances that shake your certainty and challenge your senses.
Artists who boldly cross boundaries, mixing film / theatre / dance / music / ancient / modern / real / surreal to create something completely new.
All in three whirlwind weeks, October 10�25.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

BALLET MARIBOR Radio and Juliet
OCT 10�11 U.S. PREMIERE
Ballet Maribor marries Shakespeare’s classic with the music of Radiohead in a new take on timeless. Artistic director and choreographer Edward Clug has rocked international dance festivals with his unexpected juxtapositions of music and movement; in Radio and Juliet, he adds the twist of running the story in reverse. Driven by Radiohead’s relentless beat, this stark, utterly compelling version of the tragic romance defies you to tear your eyes away, every tightly choreographed move signaling a violent end to love.
Ballet Maribor

RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA
Samdhi: Diasporic Connections
OCT 10�11 WORLD PREMIERE
A star in New York's jazz scene, this Indian-American alto sax player and composer explores the relationship between modern jazz and India’s centuries-old, divinely inspired traditions. To understand how at once cerebral and sizzling his music is, note that his last recording drew raves from both the jazz journal DownBeat and Science Magazine. Hear the world premiere of his newest work that blends southern India’s Carnatic classical music with technology, mixing western and Indian instruments in a dizzing ride ‘cross cultures.
Rudresh

PETER REDER Guided Tour
OCT 13�15 U.S. PREMIERE
Abandon your preconceptions for this outing with the British performance artist, who has recreated histories of famous historic buildings for audience “tour groups” in Edinburgh, Moscow, and Bucharest. Painstakingly researched, then refracted, his narrative is a brew of counter histories, philosophical musings, personal revelations, and downright lies—a provocative undermining of the expected. Venture belowstairs and behind the scenes of the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History in this mindbending experience.
Peter Reder

TEATRO DE LOS SENTIDOS/
THEATER OF THE SENSES
El Eco de la Sombra/The Echo of the Shadow
OCT 15�19, 21�25 U.S. PREMIERE
You enter alone; following a darkened path, you encounter performance tableaux that challenge and exalt the senses. Intensely personal, inexpressibly moving--a completely different experience for each and every member of the audience. This Barcelona-based company “investigates the poetics of the senses” in works that make the audience the main character of their own creative experience. Only 50 people will experience this performance each day/evening; order early to guarantee your place.
Teatro

KASSYS Liga
OCT 16�18 U.S. PREMIERE
Adventurous and off-kilter, this Dutch company plumbs the depths of the human psyche with unsettling and often uproarious results. In Liga, we see a story told in real-time flashback, and find ourselves drawn into a deception. The juxtaposition of film and live performance, the suggestion of interior monologues behind the onstage dialogue, and the awareness that, as audience, we are complicit in a deception, combine to make this company’s work as mind-blowing as it is hilarious.
Kassys

JO STR�MGREN KOMPANI The Department
OCT 23�24 U.S. PREMIERE
Enter the innermost and secret office of an imaginary government, where agents analyze and scrutinize society through peepholes, doors have long ago been sealed off for extreme secrecy, and mysterious orders arrive from above. The Norwegian dance-theater company brings a brilliant mix of theater, stylized movement, and invented language that carries the audience from hilarity to moments of shocked recognition--of their own entrapment in work, routine, relationships…life.
Str�mgren

13 Most Beautiful�
Songs for Andy Warhol�s Screen Tests
Composed by Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips
OCT 24�25 WORLD PREMIERE
Discover a selection of Warhol's legendary “Screen Tests”—beautiful and revealing black and white film portraits--set to a new score composed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, whose dream pop band Luna was known for its churning and languid rhythms, entrancingly melodic guitar hooks, and clever, wistful lyrics. Step back—and forward—in time, and in art, in this multimedia performance featuring large scale video projection above the musicians performing on stage.
A project jointly commissioned by The Andy Warhol Museum and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts.
(Image: Andy Warhol; Screen Test: Jane Holzer (1964) (detail); 16mm film, black and white, silent, 4 minutes at 16 frames per second. ©2008 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All Rights reserved.)


Warhol



GRAVITY OF LIGHT
OCT 10�30 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
The sun pulls the planets around itself; the porchlight pulls the moth into its glow…New York-based artists (and identical twins) Doug and Mike Starn explore the fact and metaphor of the gravity of light—a power so vast and universal it is almost unnoticed. At the center of the exhibit is the Starns’ 13-foot homemade carbon arc lamp, an impressive structure serving as both a central work of sculpture and a scientific experimental device that illuminates with its blindingly bright ight the installations around it.
Gravity of LIght

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Tickets only $10 for students and everyone 25 years old and under (with valid ID). Available by phone and in person at the Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Avenue in the Cultural District.

a project of PCTin association withAEM

PIFOF is presented as a signature event of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary celebration.

The 2008 Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts is supported by an Anonymous donor, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust�s Carol R. Brown Performance Fund, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Joan Humphrey, Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Ellis School, and The Rubinoff Company, Computer Enterprises, Inc. and Mastech.

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