Friday, October 22, 2021
Corning Works challenges the imagination with The Other Shoe at the New Hazlett
onStage Pittsburgh: Corning Works opened their season with The Other Shoe, a full-length dance/theater project in their Glue Factory series. The Other Shoe explores the state of our country and society today, where we are inundated by a torrent of information that we must process, evaluate and deal with.
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Since we have been working on the shoe project for basic design in recent weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ultimate role that shoes can play in storytelling and serve as devices in a narrative. I hadn’t even considered the visualization of the common phrase “waiting for the other shoe to drop,” and I find the association with dance and performance in the New Hazlett’s “The Other Shoe” fascinating. Shoes in a sense suggest movement as they are connected with running and walking and dancing, and the phrase itself connotes a big change coming. Based on the substance of the show I read about, the title is fitting as the piece includes dance features and the unknowable subject matter of change itself. As I consider the possibilities of a piece of visual art around the idea of the other shoe I envision shoes manipulated into their positions of motion, the crease and the toes, the slant of the sole, and perhaps one shoe hovering in the air while the other awaits it on the ground.
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