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SF Weekly
Night & Day
Feb. 2, 2000
The Future is Now.
Walking through SomArts' open doors, you'll be ushered into a new identity
courtesy of Vainglorious' Bureau of Systematic Extraction, a process that,
like bureaucracy everywhere, is bound to require some paper shuffling, waiting,
and no doubt a little public humiliation- which for once in your life, you
ought to appreciate. This is mere prelude to Capacitor's "future species2,"
which trains a critical eye on a society in which racial, ethnic, and personal
identities increasingly break down, cross paths, and trade cultural stock
with one another.
Nodding a head to the role that technology plays in this cross-pollination,
Capacitor reimagines the boundaries of "dance" itself, grafting onto the field
capoeira, juggling, climbing, and aerial acrobatics that require a physicist's
knowledge of ropes, pulleys, and counterweights.
The stage moves into the third dimension here, with the walls, the ceiling,
and the cavernous open-aired space of SomArts becoming the playground for
gravity-defying artists. Even the indeterminate divisions within the brain
itself find their boundaries dissolving, as subconcious thoughts are given
birth, and life, on the stage before, beside, and above the audience. (Todd
Dayton)
