8 Days A Week
SF Bay Guardian
Oct. 20-27, 1999

Technocrats,aerialists, climbers, dancers, jugglers, capoeristas. Bungee cords, masks, ropes, harnesses, pulleys. Technology, the future, the final frontier. Are you hearing the deep male voice over? In the local tradition of Awd and Kunststoff, but with more attention of modern dance language, Capacitor presents all the above in Future Species, a humanoid look at humanity and its technological entrapments. Artistic Director Jodi Lomask asks, "What is it like to embrace technology so literally that it becomes part of your body?" No, the answer is not breast implants but rather something that androgenizes and bounces off the walls. Objects and bodies fly in unison, and the visual result proves that Silicon Valley affects not only live-work spaces but also the art that grows around them. (Sima Belmar)

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SF Bay Guardian
Feb. 9, 2000

Capacitor's latest work, future species, considers the scope of technological innovation alongside more primal instincts, in a performance that fuses dance, acrobatic stunts, and visuals. Some of the eye-catching moments feature dancers integrated with images resembling futuristic Charlie's Angels poses, stellar fire twirling, and dancers hanging in midair in yoga positions on pulley systems. But while the cyber-inquiry and the visual appeal are certainly attention getters, (and keepers) for the duration of the show, some of the most stunning moments of the dance are the least complicated. The performance reaches a high point when the electronic music, which accompanies most of the dance, ceases and a woman in a mask dances (with no stunts but the ones the body can do alone) to a ballad reminding the fin de siecle viewer how enjoyable a little bit of soul, amid chaos, can be. (Summi Kaipa)