Event name: Supercell World Premier
Event time and place: September 21, 2023 at The Clarice
This performance was eye-opening on how you can convey so much with so little. This was my first experience of a dance representing something more than just following music. I did find this presentation of information more entertaining and personal compared to alternate teaching styles. However, the presentation was hard to follow and I got lost in some sections losing multiple minutes of information.
This piece was moving through its unique use of sound and word. I felt the small usages of verbal speech created an emphasis on those sections drawing me in. The performers would come up to the audience, transferring them into the world they were trying to create. However, this interaction made some audience members uncomfortable, which was accurate to what the performers were trying to represent.
There was nothing factually incorrect about the performance however, there were many personal experiences represented throughout the performance, which while not factually incorrect, may imply the wrong message to the audience. As previously stated some gestures the actors made, distracted the audience making the message even harder to convey than the actors intended. Additionally, once distracted, it took several minutes to understand what the performance was trying to say.
I feel this work would appeal to a very niche subset of individuals. Firstly, with the confusing nature of the performance, audience members need to be fairly educated about climate change and while to put in the effort to decipher the message. Going off of that most audience members already agree with the point the performance was trying to say, making it only reconfirm an already ingrained ideology. While I do say this, I did feel the preform would be entertaining to a broad audience, however uneducational.
Most of the Q&A explained the choices of cameras throughout the performance. The cameras represented different perspectives, reinforcing their point. Additionally, the movement of the cameras to different people represented flipping and a combination of different perspectives throughout their performance. I completely missed this when I watched the performance and looking back it brings meaning to originally mundane events.