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Capacitor's balancing act (continued)
Though there is some crossover between the two audiences, Lomask acknowledges
they're essentially separate, and that she wants to court both. "Not
everyone wants to stay out until 4 a.m. and that's fine," she says. "There
are times I don't want to stay out until 4 a.m."
"We want to meet people on their own terms," she says. "Some
people want to be up on their feet, to have a social experience, and we'll
bring that to them. Some people want to sit back, take in more detail, and
we'll meet them there."
In fact, Lomask and Capacitor co-founder Zack Bernstein ("Jody makes
it, Zack criticizes it," is how company manager Rebecca Johnson explains
their process) are already working on a new theater show to premiere next
spring, and are investigating new props such as machetes. And after whirlwind
international touring this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in
Malaysia, the company will be taking "Outer Spaces" to New York
for a two-week run in January.
Dance without borders
The company isn't giving up on a closer merger of the club and theater-performance
forms. "We're not content with the borders that exist," Bernstein
says."We're trying to create a new alternative entertainment form that
has something for the mind as well as the senses."
But in the meantime performing in clubs has brought serious dance to a wide
audience that wouldn't otherwise see it -- and taken Capacitor to higher standards
in the theater.
(Rachel Howard)
