Fred Torres Collaborations
527 West 29th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Saturday, June 16, 7:00, and Sunday, June 17, 4:00
Tickets: $15
212-244-5074
www.johnbyrneproductions.com
www.fredtorres.com
Last summer, dancer and choreographer John Byrne presented “Facility of Movement,” an engaging site-specific lunchtime dance made in conjunction with David LaChapelle’s “From Darkness to Light” installation at Lever House, which was designed by Fred Torres Collaborations. Byrne and LaChapelle also worked together on Byrne’s evening-length Transcending Form at Theatre 80. This weekend Byrne will be premiering The Monkey Channel, a play with dance inspired by the writings of John Krakauer (Into Thin Air), running June 16-17 at Fred Torres in Chelsea. In 1990, midwestern single mom Cindy suddenly decides to climb Mt. Eiger, the more-than-thirteen-thousand-foot-high mountain in the Bernese Alps made famous by the Trevanian book and Clint Eastwood movie The Eiger Sanction, leaving her teenage daughter at home with an exchange student from the Dominican Republic. The play is written and directed by Byrne, who also appears in the production along with Debra Zalkind and Natasha Murray. Tickets are available with advance RSVP to john@johnbyrneproductions.com.