Lucky Plush Productions: Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip

Complex choreography, incisive commentary, and vaudevillian-level physical comedy are the hallmarks of Julia Rhoads' Lucky Plush Productions—winner of a 2016 MacArthur Award. In the dance-theatre adventure Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, which was developed in part right here at Krannert Center, this troupe of intrepid artists come to life as a group of washed-up superheroes reinventing themselves through a think tank for do-gooders. Comic book-style graphics, sound effects, and video launch audiences into a graphic novel-like world where the circularity of corporate culture gets a POW! from wry humor and spectacular contemporary dance.

Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip was commissioned by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the Pamela Crutchfield Dance Fund of the Imagine campaign and co-commissioned by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This performance will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.