Two shows at COIL this year use new media technology to manipulate existing materials to stage a “what if” event. But, despite their appearances, both performances end up with very human stories and rather conventional forms of theater.
Jeremy M. Barker
Jeremy M. Barker is a contemporary performance critic based in Brooklyn. The former editor of Culturebot.org, his work has appeared in American Theater magazine, Bellyflop, and others nationally and internationally. You can find out more about his work at his website.
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Dissecting Contemporary Dance
Even for those well-versed in contemporary dance, Maria Hassabi’s work can sometimes test the very applicability of the term. Sure, postmodernism has expanded dance’s vocabulary to include all sorts of things well outside the limitations of formal technique, from pedestrian movement to text and so on, but at some level, most people still expect to see performers actually move around on stage at a dance piece.
