Friction
Friction which could be described as an experimental movie with Dancers as accurately as a Dance with video opened at DTW this week. Friction uses a large scale edited video projected on the just slightly out of skew back wall of the theatre as a spine, with a “live” score. (all sampled sound but the soundscape is built on the fly DJ style) along with a mix of live camera footage on a set of rolling screens. The screens move move throughout the stage, and the projections follow them thorough the use of GSRT’s Media Beam projection system. And at times the dancers and the Projections leave the stage and invade the audience space itself.
The dance has a series of surprising moments but is as abstract as it’s topic (Friction) is concrete.
Reviews:
New York Times
