A few years ago, I inadvertently joined a mosh pit during a Suburbs show in Minneapolis. At first I didn’t get it: I’d been on crowded dance floors before, but this one was out of hand. I got mad and started shoving back. Then I realized how fun it was, unleashing anger, being part of the wave. It was a group effort. Sometimes others even protected me.
Humor and satire lighten the mix. Five short transitional sections in the first half—inspired by Mark Earls’s 2009 marketing book Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature—riff on consumer “choices.” In “Mac.VS.pc.,” the rallying cries of Apple and Microsoft fill the air. In “Line.TEST,” four dancers hold identical red tubing between a hand and foot to demonstrate the “differences” a market researcher insists are there. Judy’s gladiatorial “Futball.DUET” features two horsey ballerinas prancing in platform heels, sporting football pads as tutus. Their preferred mode of combat is pelvic thrusting, which produces a furious clacking.
Through 6/30: Thu-Sun 7 PM
Links Hall
3111 N. Western
773-841-2663
breakbone.com
$18-$20
