Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts take on communication in the digital age
Code blue: Dancers improvise based on computer-generated commands in Number Zero (a space opera).
PHOTO BY BEAU SAUNDERSDANCE Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts' zany Number Zero (a space opera) is truly a piece for our times. These days, we spend more hours communicating, or at least trying to, through electronic media rather than with real human beings. We order books online, talk with our mothers via email, and set up our dates through Twitter. Most of us don't think twice about what this does to our nervous systems, not to mention to our hearts. The clever, witty, and chaotic Number Zero offers a corrective. Sort of.Read more »