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Oakland Tribune
Capacitor acts as conductor for energy, emotion
Oct. 20, 1999
For future species Jodi Lomask has brought together a band of performers who
use the air, floor and walls as their stage. There's [Zack] Bernstein, the
light speed juggler, aerialist Jennifer Frank, capoeirista Lindell Dixon,
and willowy modern dancer Patricia West. En Pointe ballerina Pring Chindahporn,
makes a playful appearance. Capacitor uses acrobatics, rappelling, glowing
balls and many kinds of embraces. There is dancing and there is movement-of
the emotions. "I try to make it [the show] a less passive experience for the
audience so that they leave having been moved," [artistic director Jodi] Lomask
says. "I want to remind them of something they have felt, a feeling they may
have forgotten."
Lomask also wants to give the audience "just the beauty" of her dancers. The
opening sequence of future species is stunning. Frank's delicate body is lifted
by a harness and rope connected to Aaron Bernstein who uses his end to walk
across the wall. Below them is Lomask, barely five feet tall stealing across
the stage as though she is eluding a demon. In the next scenes, Lomask, Dixon
and West leap, writhe and cling to each other with candid emotion. They lift
and hold one another, carve curves in the air with leonine legs and move as
if in a dream... (next)
