102110 Get Out

It’s not often one comes across a live dance performance that take cues from Quentin Tarantino. Sure, we love that famous little pas de deux between John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, but doing “The Monkey” and “The Batusi” to Chuck Berry does not an evening of fine dance make. However, we suspect we’ll see far less literal inspiration in Loan Sharking, a two-act work being performed by RUBBERBANDance Group at the ICA (100 Northern Avenue, Boston, 617.478.3100) from Friday, October 22, through Sunday, October 24. (Click here for $40 tickets and specific show times.) The Montreal-based company, founded by choreographer and dancer Victor Quijada, is certainly used to hybridizing influences to create its own trademark style: Quijada is a former LA b-boy who has blended a hip-hop sensibility with classical approaches to ballet and modern dance. Loan Sharking appropriates commissioned works he originally created for other companies, reinterpreting them through the innovative, elastic limbs of RUBBERBANDance. Included in the show is an abbreviated version of the 2008 work Punta Ciego, a piece whose “non-linear” approach was partly inspired by Tarantino. Sounds exciting — and now we’re suddenly hankering for Kill Bill: The Ballet.