Soon, though, mechanized motions intrude upon the pastoral: one scene has the performers marching jerkily to a strict 4/4 beat, with tritones destabilizing the harmony.
Rather than examine how Dunn's backstory of pain and feelings of separateness inform her present, Moayed has the performers project her story as it happens.
Some stories in the show are funny, some tough, but the experience of working with other sex workers has, the performers say, been positive.
That's like being shown an amazing magic trick and then having the performer drily explain the whole thing to you in unending monotone.
So, almost regardless of the quality of the performance, there is already something about having the performers in front of an audience that distinguishes it from filmed performance.
"SuperPosition" had the performers navigating something akin to a giant aerial hamster wheel.
"It can't get pretty". So what he had the performers do, he said, was play against the action.
The goal is to have the performers dance so long and so hard that they reach a level of transcendence, and the audience does, too".
"The Earth is all we have," the performers sang.
Rincon, who chairs the dance program at UCSD, had the performers lead the audience on a kinetic journey around every gorgeously painted exterior of the building.
