Tyson vs. Ali
Opening Night: January 3, 2014
Closing: January 25, 2014
Theater: 3LD Art & Technology Center
Harrowing and unpredictable, TYSON vs. ALI brings the debate heard in hundreds of barbershops across America to life – placing these two giants in the ring together in a way no one has previously imagined. A volatile combination of dance, theater, and new-media stagecraft, the palpable emotional and physical experience of boxing is examined through the larger-than-life personas of Iron Mike and The Greatest. With choreography by Laura K. Nicoll and script by Frank Boudreaux, leather hits flesh for 9 rounds of action as the boxers spar with each other, interpreting these men and their myths.
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January 7, 2014
The sweat, the combativeness and even the body blows feel mighty real, but the fight itself is pure fantasy in Tyson vs. Ali, a sleek mixed-media meditation on a boxing bout that never was, and never could have been. Currently bobbing and weaving around a simulated ring at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, the production is conceived and directed by Reid Farrington, who deftly splices together video footage and live performance to offer a prismatic take on a theoretical matchup of Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, two of the great names in boxing history.
READ THE REVIEWJanuary 7, 2014
It is one of the most enduring questions in boxing: Who would win if Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson could face off? In their primes at different times, the heavyweight champions never met in the ring. A multimedia performance opening Friday at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, Tyson vs. Ali, imagines what might have been.
READ THE REVIEWJanuary 7, 2014
Prizefighters aren’t usually revered for the richness of their interior lives. It’s a stereotype that Tyson vs. Ali wants to put on the ropes. Kicking off the 2014 edition of PS 122’s COIL festival, this production from 3-Legged Dog knows how to throw a punch, in more ways than one.
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