Dance | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: Attack Theatre closes out its 24th season with one of its most ambitious programs to date, The Rube Goldberg Variations.
The 90-minute dance-theater performance combines Rube Goldberg machines, which achieve simple tasks through unnecessarily elaborate means, with J.S. Bach’s equally detailed composition The Goldberg Variations. In it, two neighbors (here portrayed by Mark Thompson and Carolina Loyola-Garcia) face off over their differences to create humorous situations that culminate in the building of their own Rube Goldberg machine of understanding.
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This article, although fairly brief, talks about Attack Theatre’s 24th season closing with a Rube Goldberg variation performance. This took place in 2019 and was a 90-minute dance-theater performance that used Rube Goldberg machines. After just doing a Rube Goldberg machine (a fairly complicated one at that,) reading about this was very admirable. This production combined the patterns in box music with the idea of a Rube Goldberg-like machine. I love this concept that Latin Grammy Award nominated composer Flavio Chamis created such an original idea. Surprisingly, this Rube Goldberg musical Contraption was less steps than the one that we had just built as a class. This piece had a 32 piece count, while we had over 71 steps. Representing Goldberg's work through dance is such an engaging concept, it's something I definitely would have liked to see. The concept of taking simple tasks and having overly complicated ways of getting each one of them done is similar to dance in a way that I never thought about.
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