So... Here's the fun part where I get to try and describe an indescribable experience.
The audience is standing through out the entire show. This is essential because the audience is also moving through out the entire show. The audience must move because very large objects, from people sized to small-house sized are moving through, about, above and around them. Bright lights flash, confetti flies, gigantic fans send bursts of wind, water rains down, and the sub woofer is so loud it reverberates in your chest.
The show begins with a man on walkway, walking at first and then running as he forces his way through obstacles. He gets knocked down, and continues to claw his way forward. Eventually he is joined by several other depressed and bedragled looking people in business-suit attire looking deeply unsatsified and otherwise oppressed by "the man," that faceless corporate force of evil. A series of other elements are incorporated in, and with each one the man, occasionally joined by his companions, begin to shed their culturally imposed boundaries and get down to raw humanism. At one point the audience is enveloped by a metallic sheet while aerial performers run back and forth flipping and cartwheeling. Later on performers appeared in a glass bottom pool of shallow water above the audience. The pool decended as the performers danced, splashed and skidded inches from the heads of the audience. In the end the audience and cast dissolved into a full out dance party that can only be described as an unfettered celebration of the chance to be alive.
It was very artsy, other-wordly and a truly unique experience.
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