“ Stimulate Dance is the most brilliant dance I’ve ever seen”
–A new fan at the 3/28/09 Stimulate performance.
“Dance is an intimate experience, but never so immediate as this. This Shunpike Partner Artist troupe successfully creates a space beyond the expectations of traditional theater, both with their intimately expressive tales and by inviting the audience to mingle and converse after the show, further extending the performance from art into real life. Previously performing in private homes before audiences seated on cozy floor cushions, Stimulate comes to CoCA with their series of dance vignettes exploring the borders of human connection and intimacy. Sexy, scary, funny, tender, and haunting by turns, edgy and emotionally charged, each of the seven unique dance tales enchants with evocatively revealed inner lives and illuminates a different facet of human experience. An ethereal sensuality pervades Ghost Marriage, a classic Chinese love tale, while a daring, competitive bond grows between three friends in Male Sexuality. A question posed at the Bus Stop unfolds the private headspaces of two reticent people who must know if the #49 just passed, and What is This? asks just how much biology determines both sex and love.”
-The Seattle Weekly, June 18 2008. Neil Corcoran
“My season seats for the Pacific Northwest Ballet are VERY far away. Stimulate was the best theater experience I’ve ever had–I was so close to the performers that I felt like part of the creative process, not distant and excluded from it.”
–Comment by an audience member at the 3/9/08 Stimulate performance, Harbor Steps Condominiums, Seattle.
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