La Peña's Hybrid & Experimental Performance Ensemble presents PARADOX

BART Interspersed: From the Bart Trains to La Peña Terrains. For the past two months, La Peña's theater troupe has been boarding BART trains and performing skits about love, compassion and balance to unsuspecting BART passengers. If you are one of those fortunate commuters caught by surprise by these fearless performers, this is your chance to enjoy them full-blown on their other habitat, La Peña stage. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Celebrating its 33rd Anniversary La Peña's Hybrid & Experimental Performance Ensemble presents PARADOX Directed by Marc David Pinate June 17, 18, 19, 2008; 8pm At La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. 510-849-2568 Combining movement, video, text, live music & guerrilla theatre, PARADOX presents a journey into the collective unconscious. An original work of metaphysical musings that explores the power of performance to heal the spirit. PARADOX is both story and non-story, theatre and non-theatre, teaching and non-teaching, being and non-being. It is the space beyond the logical or rational where opposites coexist and simultaneous truths converge. All is (n)One. Directed by La Peña resident artist, Marc David Pinate PARADOX represents the culmination of a year and a half of experiments with movement, guerrilla theatre and innovative ways of presenting text. June's workshop presentation of PARADOX will feature hybrid performance pieces which incorporate movement, spoken word, video and live music. This type of hybrid performance is inspired by the previous work Pinate has done with well known Bay Area choreographers Ericka Chong Schuck and Sara Shelton Mann. Interspersed within the live performances are video segments which show highlights of the troupe's guerrilla theatre actions on BART trains. For the past two months, La Peña's Hybrid and Experimental Performance Ensemble has been boarding BART trains and performing short skits about love, compassion and balance to unsuspecting BART passengers. "I have to give a lot of credit to La Peña Cultural Center for having the courage and foresight to fund and present this kind of experimental work," said Pinate. "We have a very talented group of fearless performers with significant previous experience before coming on board with this project. I am excited to unveil this new work to Bay Area audiences." The three performances of PARADOX, June 17-19, are part of an open creation process that lets audience members give feed back and ask questions at the end of each show. Audience feedback will be taken into account as the show continues to evolve towards its final version. ### CALENDAR INFO. WHAT: PARADOX - A Hybrid Theatre Experiment WHEN: June 17, 18, 19, 2008; 8pm (all shows) WHERE: La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley COST: June 17 - Pay What You Can June 18 & 19 - $7.00 General Admission/$5 Students INFO: 510/849.2568, info@lapena.org www.lapena.org