Dénouement was created for a collaboration with Brave New World Theatre Company in honor of Halloween 2010. I let my twisted imagination run wild while concocting this murderous menagerie … Company XIV invites you to our Royal Masquerade Ball where no one is truly who they seem…. Get ready for lust, love, betrayal and best of all….. MURDER.
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” Director/choreographer Austin McCormick creates an air of depravity and elegance. His choreography tells a good story as it builds tension and suspense. His vision of a world where the rich are bored and need some new kick is contemptuous and explosive. The cast of dancers are all beautiful and talented. They do amazing work and make it all look so smooth and filled with passion. I felt utterly drawn into the action and I didn’t want to miss a second.” -NY Theatre.com
“To step into the space of Company XIV is to surrender yourself to the world that Austin McCormick and his cohorts create. First act – Dénouement —A Murderous Masquerade – is at once devilish, devious, and delirious – it will beguile you, possess you, and then -once it’s had its way with you- will leave you emotionally drained, begging for more. Taking a cue from the Marquis de Sade, the troupe of dancers play a dangerous game of Russian-roulette, one where in the end just a single person remains standing. The passion, betrayal, revenge, jealousy, fear, anticipation and excitement are all played out in a breathless whirlwind of dancing that mixes hatred and love as easily as gin mixes with vermouth to make that perfect martini. Yet again, when Austin McCormick lets his imagination run wild, it runs straight into a world of intoxication, romance and magic. Dénouement, however, is crisply tinged with exquisite torture as well – the anxious irrationality of the indulgence that seems doomed to fail before it starts. To watch a woman dance a twisted dance of mourning that is so raw and powerful as to virtually evoke wailing – or to see a woman who would rather kill her lover than become a spectator to his display of wicked philandering – this is to see the true ghosts that haunt the human soul. Bathed in the ethereal lighting design of Gina Scherr, the effect becomes so heady that you’d need more senses to fully embrace it all. As it stands, the five you’ve got will be dazzled and overwhelmed.With narration delivered by an alluringly well-heeled Jeff Takacs (this is a man who knows how to rock thigh-high patent leather spike boots), you will be bewitched by those who “love much . . . but not for long”. - The Happiest Medium.com
“Dénouement—A Murderous Masquerade is a dance to the death. Set at a royal masquerade ball where the host supplies his guests with a handgun and invites them to play a series of macabre party games, Dénouement is a meditation on love, lust and devotion, in all its creepy glory….the skilled dancers demonstrate a flare for elegant violence.” -OffOffOnline.com
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