The New York Times: You may find yourself on 44th Street, having just come out of the theatrical dance piece/rock show/neuroscience lecture “American Utopia.” And you may find yourself — like the quizzical protagonist of one of David Byrne’s best-loved songs — with a bunch of questions about what you’ve just seen.
For the mystified as well as the merely curious, we offer answers to your burning questions, compiled with the help and insights of the show’s creator Byrne and the creative team, including the 11 multitalented merrymakers onstage with him at the Hudson Theater, where the show continues through February.
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Great article...
Ok this is SO COOL. From the first picture in the article I knew that I was going to love this concept, and I did. First of all, having the transmitters in the shoulders of the shirts is something I have been asking every lighting designer I know about since I started doing technical theater, and the most I've gotten is something along the lines of "yeah I'm sure the technology exists". I am so happy to see that someone is actually doing automatically tracking lights because I have been on this bandwagon for so long! Past that, I think the choice to do monochrome of metallic and/or gray is a really interesting statement on the relationship of the performers to each other and the experience as a whole. Also, I think that overall the existence of an article like this is really interesting and should be done more often. Explaining the meanings behind aesthetic choices can be really helpful for audiences, even though you may hope that the meaning is obvious enough to be recognized. I think it levels the playing field and allows everyone to get the same amount of significance out of a piece as long as they take the time to read.
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