"Running Shoe Point" a.k.a."Blood on the Dance Floor"

Dance on point - running shoe point. Lee Eisler, former Olympic athlete merges her running days with her years as a dancer and comes up with a new ballet for the nineties. It is part classical, part street dance - a world where speed meets dance on point.

The running shoe, an icon of the fast paced nineties creates a backstreet world that is gritty and wild. Five characters struggle to keep pace with the increasing speed of the technological age. Out of this world sudden dances emerge on running shoe point - dances that move upward in their yearning for the spiritual side of life.

In Samuel Beckett's time he told the story of Waiting for Godot. His existential theory was that we wait and wait and life passes us by--we die and that's all there is. Today in the nineties we run and run striving to win and life passes us by and then we die. Same story--different parameters.

Running Shoe Point takes place over three days that are increasingly physically demanding. Each character must compete and achieve. There are brief moments of respite when a character steps out of the race with an inkling that there is something more to life. Yet ultimately, this path is not chosen and the rat race continues. In the end someone has to pay.

Five of Canada's best performers, Rhonda Lea Cooper, Edmond Kilpatrick, Kathleen McDonagh, Raymond Milne and Kimberly Tuson manoeuvre their way through this world of grit and speed with startling precision and humour.