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Bangor Daily News, Maine
REVIEW: Capacitor peformance blends concepts
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Electric charges may take place constantly, but they are at their most
dramatic in the dark. That's what Capacitor, a multidisciplinary performance
group, proved at a low-lit presentation Saturday at the Maine Center for the
Arts in Orono. Under the direction of Jodi Lomask, a classically trained ballet
dancer, Capacitor pushes the lines of movement and art toward science and
social commentary.
"Within Outer Spaces," a 75-minute showcase, called on the considerable
strength and elasticity of seven performers, including Alexander Zenzian,
whose earliest dance training was in Bangor (but whose roles were limited
Saturday because of a broken foot). The dancer-acrobats sometimes were suspended
from the ceiling and floated through the air, embracing or catapulting imagistically.
In an athletic pas de deux, a couple was bungee-corded together, bouncing
toward, away and into eachother.
The show was part circus, part peformance art, part cartoon and part intellectual
ramble, a combination that could be fascinating and confounding.
On the a white screen, projected images of Earth, of cell division and of
monitor readouts were integral to Lomask's amalgamated sense of the connections
art can make. In her own quest to know the universe, she poses these questions:
Can dancers tell us about carbon and nitrogen? Or represent those first days
of human life? Or move in the fashion of meteors?
Capacitor underscored that Lomask who is in her 20s, is playing with and pushing
ideas that are, at once, ancient, contemoprary and futuristic. Her vision
emphasizes isolation as well as connectedness, panic as well as tenderness,
technology as well as visceral human physicality. Clearly Lomask is a young
artist whose aesthetics and technique still are taking shape in a way that
make her an artist to keep an eye on. (Alicia Anstead)
