The Bang Group explores love and romance in the world premiere of HEAD OVER HEELS at Joe’s Pub on February 14-15 (photo by Jennifer Jones)
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St. between East Fourth St. & Astor Pl.
Friday, February 14, and Saturday, February 15, $15 in advance, $20 at the door, 7:00
212-967-7555
www.joespub.com
www.thebanggroup.com
DANCENOW regulars the Bang Group are back at Joe’s Pub this week with a special Valentine’s Day world premiere. The New York City-based TBG, founded in 1995 by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin, will be exploring the intricacies of the human heart in Head over Heels, a tapping evening-length nonnarrative tale featuring Amber Sloan, Nic Petry, Kazin, and 2013 Guggenheim Fellow Parker that reveals the ups and downs of love and romance. The quartet will dance and sing to the music of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Frank Loesser, Bob Merrill, Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, and Burt Bacharach, played live by Anna Ebbesen, as well as tap out compositions by Steve Reich and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. TBG’s previous DANCENOW presentations were 2008’s ShowDown, a reimagining of Annie Get Your Gun, and 2011’s Misters and Sisters, a self-reflexive piece about musical theater. (Others who have participated in the DANCENOW program, which started at Joe’s Pub in 2003, seeking to “encourage artists to think outside the box and utilize this unique space,” are choreographers Doug Elkins, Nicholas Leichter, Kyle Abraham, Camille A. Brown, Monica Bill Barnes, and Takehiro Ueyama.) Head over Heels will be performed on February 14 and 15 at 7:00; tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.