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It uses Microsoft Kinect to capture performers movements and re-frame the audience's relationship to live performance. .
The performers' movements — at times delicate and slow, at times fast and agitated — help bring out the tension.
Every piece is set against a different digital backdrop: scenes of palaces, grasslands, mountains, snowfalls and clouds, all animated and coordinated with the performers' movements.
Again, the performers' movements — at times delicate and slow, like the tenderest of mimes; at other times fast and agitated — help bring out the tension that exists here between theatrical plasticity (the play's various actions) and pictorial stasis (its remarkable set).
New York is not used to slow -- indeed, its citizens are not even patient with slow -- and yet the idiosyncratic, deliberate variations of the performers' movements made them mesmerizing, allowing the walkers (as well as their audience) to take a deep, considered breath while they appeared to sleepwalk in public.
With the desire for the naked performers' movements to exist "outside of any kind of binary gender code" while still invoking sexuality, Peake has crafted a continuous live performance featuring both men and women (some on rollerskates, some not) set across a half-constructed plaster wall, raised scaffolding, a checkered dance floor, acrylic bears, and assorted structural oddities.
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They are professional performers executing movements that require years of training and practice to get right, so that they seem to occur naturally and effortlessly.
The performers' contemplative movements were in constant contrast to the exterior chaotic din.
There are the blank-faced performers, whose movement becomes, over time, a source of profound emotional content.
The performer's movements often evoke the choreography of Kabuki theater — as do the extremes of masculinity and femininity — and offer seeming hints of Celtic tribal dance.
The avant-garde performance artist has specialized in works of self-styled minimalism (Philip Glass is a role model) which is often played on prerecorded tapes, while lip-synching performers offer movement: anti-opera to purists, good theater to many on the downtown scene.
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