The Pittsburgh Tatler: There’s a sequence near the end of Beth Corning’s new dance piece The Waiting Room that struck a deep nerve with me. Performer Jacob Goodman begins to spin a simple pine coffin around a circle, like the hand of a clock, spinning it faster and faster as other dancers rush in, bearing the kinds of mundane objects that consume our days – a bowl of soup, a newspaper, an outfit – and scrambling to keep up with the spinning coffin.
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This piece looks extremely interesting. As soon as I read it, I immediately looked up information on the performance to find there was one more showing I would attend, tomorrow at 2:00 pm. The tickets are a little above what I can comfortably spend, but it says there is a pay-what-you-can if I am at the box office and there are still seats left over. It is so nice to be in a city where there are so many interesting events and performances constantly happening, and reading this article has helped to remind me of the outside world that’s right there. This piece has many different combined elements, but all surrounding the main topic, Death. Although many pieces are on death, I feel it is more often than not of the experience of someone else dying, not ourselves. I am interested in this piece because it has a person who sits with a dead body. This piece brings about the feeling of what it is like to truly sit with the fact that they, themselves will die. Exciting! Hope I get in.
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