Stage Fog doesn't have anything against dancers, and to prove it we're featuring some of our favorite companies this week, letting them mix it up with theater. After all, San Francisco is a major dance theater center.
But before we get started, we wanted to call out Theatre Bay Area's Free Night of Theater on October 20. OK, we work at Theatre Bay Area, which is why we weren't plugging the event earlier, and now all the free tickets are gone! You’d have thought it was Green Day, the tickets went so fast. Check out the site anyway; you can show up at the theater of your choice and see if anyone flaked. Or, check out these fabulous other options.
at Project Artaud Theater
A bounce-juggling surface that receives vibrations and triggers images. A six-person aerial structure. A LED headpiece that changes color with a toss of the head. And did we mention innovative dance? This is what makes Capacitor one of the most kick-ass dance companies in the Bay Area, and it's also what landed them in Wired magazine and on Tech TV. Well, actually, those effects are brand-new as part of Capacitor's world premiere (the first in two years) that takes the audience on a journey through the Earth's layers to the core--a sort of metaphor for human consciousness. Inspired by modern geophysics and created in collaboration with the likes of The Crucible (for the aerial structure), Digging in the Dark apparently utilizes more than just the theater's stage. No surprise--after all, we fell in love with Capacitor the first time we saw them climb the walls in glow-in-the-dark costumes at SomArts some four years ago.
Playing October 20-30
