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New York Times
"Cavorting in a Three-Ring Cosmos Where Newton's Laws Share Top
Billing"
The universe is a circus. That appeared to be the message of "Within
Outer Spaces," the ingenious show that Capacitor presented on Sunday
night at Here.
This San Francisco-based troupe combines dance with acrobatics, circus acts
and unusual scenic effects. In "Within Outer Spaces" it compared
heavenly bodies to human bodies and found them equally amazing. The tone was
set at the outset when a dancer dangling from cords spun like a planet while
slides of constellations were projected. Other wonders followed.
There were many juggling acts using balls, hoops, tubes and flaming torches.
Dancers glowed in the dark and swooped across the floor. One with torches
attached to his fingers lighted torches on another performer's headdress.
In a duet, a man and woman bound by an elastic band kept coming close and
drawing away again, but never snapping apart, as if they had become a human
rubber band. Later, performers bounded about on a trampoline that was part
of a structure resembling a giant jungle gym.
Some of the slide projections showed stars, scientific diagrams and an observatory.
When images of animals and plants were projected, dancers crept, hopped, stood
upright and sat at a computer as if choreographically summarizing evolution.
"Within Outer Spaces" made science and technology the pretexts for
a galaxy of magic tricks and dancing. The versatile performers, directed by
Jodi Lomask, included Zack Bernstein, Lindell Dixon, Jamie Duggan, Jocelynn
Rudig, Alexander Zendzian and Ms. Lomask. The slides were by Thierry Di Donna
and Grant Davis. And the taped accompaniment included electronic music by
Thomas Day, Joe Rice and Jeremy Tressler and a cello score by Alexander Kort.
(Jack Anderson)
