{"id":123466,"date":"2019-10-07T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=123466"},"modified":"2019-10-07T07:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:23:23","slug":"catapult-will-amaze-during-npac-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/10\/07\/catapult-will-amaze-during-npac-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Catapult will amaze during NPAC show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catapult is, technically, a shadow dance company. What it&nbsp;really is a theatrical art form that is an amazingly imaginative&nbsp;combination of dance, story-telling, and sculpture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Catapult-promo-pic-10-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123467\"\/><figcaption><strong>Dance company Catapult will be coming to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center this Saturday.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2009,&nbsp;by Adam Battlestein (choreographer, creative director, and master&nbsp;teaching artist for Pilobolus Dance Theatre for nine years), Catapult&nbsp;catapulted to fame on Season 8 of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d, earning its&nbsp;way to the finals of the NBC hit show.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catapult is all about the human body and its ability to transform. The&nbsp;talented Catapult dancers work behind a screen to create seemingly&nbsp;impossible dancing shadow silhouettes of shapes from the world around&nbsp;us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audience members won\u2019t believe their eyes as they watch these incredible dancers&nbsp;become a mountain, a full-sized elephant, a helicopter, a house with a&nbsp;window and people inside the window. They will never figure out how&nbsp;Catapult does&nbsp;it, and they won\u2019t know what the group will do next &#8212; they will be&nbsp;surprised and delighted again and again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audiences of all ages love&nbsp;what appears to be effortless transformations and applaud over and over as more and more unbelievable images appear.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catapult will be coming to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio on Saturday, October 12, at 7:30 p.m. For&nbsp;tickets or more information, go online to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/npacvw.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NPACVW.ORG<\/a>&nbsp;or call the&nbsp;Niswonger box office at 419.238.6722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Catapult is, technically, a shadow dance company. What it&nbsp;really is a theatrical art form that is an amazingly imaginative&nbsp;combination of dance, story-telling, and sculpture. Founded in 2009,&nbsp;by Adam Battlestein (choreographer, creative director, and master&nbsp;teaching artist for Pilobolus Dance Theatre for nine years), Catapult&nbsp;catapulted to fame on Season 8 of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:29:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}