Comme Toujours Here I Stand Featuring Big Dance Theater October 3, 2009

Big Dance Theater's new work, 'Comme Toujours Here I Stand,' re-invents Agnes Varda's classic New Wave film, 'Cleo From 5 to 7,' as a piece of theater. Shot in Paris in 1961, the original film captures the early evening hours in the life of a marginally-talented pop singer waiting for the results of a medical examination. The ensemble uses the film's script as a found object, moving three rolling walls and low-budget video to collide the vivid agility of film and the endearingly burdensome nature of theater.