“a visually, kinetically, sonically and intellectually dazzling piece of dance theater that comments brilliantly on the whole process of creating, rehearsing, performing, viewing and critiquing dance.” - Chicago Sun Times
ABOUT
Cinderbox takes its cue from the media’s voyeuristic approach to “reality” to explore the comedy and anxiety in our hyper-networked culture. With a specific curiosity in the purportedly unscripted and fly-on-the-wall observational style of reality TV, the work both exploits and makes indistinct the live and virtual, private and public, observer and observed, improvised and choreographed, and the highly presentational and minutely subtle. Athletic choreography, video, dialogue, and a “show within a show” characterize this complex and interactive environment shaped by the media technologies that alter our perception of how reality is generated.
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PREMIERE: Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, 2007
ARTISTIC DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Julia Rhoads
DEVISED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ENSEMBLE:
Francisco Aviña, Marc Macaranas, Melinda Jean Myers, Cassandra Porter, Benjamin Wardell, Meghann Wilkinson
LIGHTING DESIGN, STAGE MANAGER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Kevin Rechner
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Michael Caskey
VIDEO DESIGN: John Boesche
COSTUME DESIGN: Jeff Hancock
ORIGINAL TEXT: Julia Rhoads & the Ensemble
Additional Music: Queen, Yes
