Good afternoon, 

My name is Michaelina McGee and I am the current Programming Fellow at Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) in East Liberty. I am writing you to let you know about an upcoming and very exciting event at our theater. Penn Avenue Creative Artist-in-Residence Bill Shannon will be premiering Touch Update, the culmination of a yearlong creative process with KST. If you would be willing to share this event on your website it would be greatly appreciated. 

EVENT DETAILS
Friday – Saturday, May 11 – 12, 2018
8:00pm / Kelly Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Ave 

Known for creating groundbreaking choreographies that explore the social constructions that surround disabled bodies, Shannon combines movement, wearable projection technology and video installation to explore the significant and often subtle implications of physical human contact in the digital era.

Featuring an all-star lineup of Pittsburgh collaborators and performers—including Ron Chunn, Teena Custer, Cornelius Henke, Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight—Touch Update “reverse engineers” Shannon’s virtuosic technique for dancing on crutches, as he dissects and dismantles the multiple online identities we create in order to mask and manipulate our lived experience.

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