Creative Capital

Description

BIG EATER, a multidisciplinary dance-based performance for six performers, takes an askance look at our appetites and juxtaposes our needy, conniving selves beside our more transcendent capabilities: the mind’s ability to recognize patterns across phenomena, for one. Known for his deeply intelligent, wildly funny productions, Bessie Award-winning choreographer David Neumann attempts to dance his brain on stage, finding form through an aggressive mixture of dance and theater building techniques. Using dance and theater to examine the way patterns can reveal themselves across phenomena, Neumann grounds his experimental approach in autobiography, weaving and colliding the disparate elements that make up a life: suburbia’s proximity to nature, drunkenness, 1980s TV stardom, synthetic biology, 19th century ballet and the end of the world.