THE DREAM PROJECT
This moment from Moving Parts Theatre Company’s debut production, The Dream Project, perfectly realizes the piece’s expressed intent: to “make something as ephemeral as dreams . . . tangible enough for the audience to experience.” The curious logic of the scene and the simple, arresting beauty of the image create the unmistakable reality Of the dream state. At the same time the gesture is highly theatrical, and the falling scarves provide a vivid picture of food going down the digestive tract.
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It also seems an odd choice for the cast to rely heavily upon movement when their physicality is so restrained. There is so little text that Jennifer Savarirayan’s ensemble choreography must carry much of the show, yet the performers seem ill at ease with her simple gestures, rarely carrying a movement to its natural extreme–a hesitancy that drains the movement of its expressive potential.
