"Sunny in the Furnace,” the nearly 90-minute show that debuted at the Kitchen on Thursday March 6, 2014.
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It's by performance and installation artist Aki Sasamoto_____________________________________________________________
Dance|Dance Review
Stilts Aren’t the Only Way to Rise Above It All
Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/arts/dance/aki-sasamotos-sunny-in-the-furnace-at-the-kitchen.html?_r=0
That’s
especially unfortunate because the show does have an emotional core.
Ms. Sasamoto tells a story — possibly true, possibly not — about a
friend who killed himself. Her musings are about why different kinds of
people — optimists, pessimists; dumb people, smart people — react to
life differently. Intelligence, she suggests, isn’t necessarily a
blessing. “Work on your idiocy,” she advises.
She shows a YouTube video of Bobby Hebb performing “Sunny,”
a hopeful song he wrote after the death of his brother, and “Sunny in
the Furnace” can also be taken as a response to grief. The key words she
writes to elucidate her muddled thinking, along with the blackboard
lecture with equations and diagrams that the mathematician Pau Atela
gives to us on catastrophe theory, could be a parody of the false
comfort in rational explanations of human behavior. But “Sunny in the
Furnace” feels half-baked.
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