In dance, the body is substituted for the voice, the urgency of muscle and bone taken as universal, various languages codified in the form of techniques. All this replaces the dominance of the mouth and makes the lungs more engine than bellows. Joe Goode Performance Group takes on this trope in its newest dance theater piece, Hush, presented at ZSpace September 26-29 and October 3-5.
Focusing primarily on the narratives of two characters, Penny (Damara Vita Ganley) and Bert (Melecia Estrella), who each have a (not very secret) trauma to conceal, Hush is most fascinating for the soundscape it creates through the voices of its performers, a driving score performed live by Ben Juodvalkis, and the unusual presence of Foley artist Sudhu Tewari.
