Cell Phone Ballet

Cell Phone Ballet addresses the dichotomy between the private environment of the "telephone world" that is transmitted into the individual's ear, and the exterior environment of actual physical space. Within our common conception of the telephone there is a highly developed, imagined space that often contradicts the physical world, and yet simultaneously heightens and accentuates our perception of it.This framing of one incongruent world within another world is a metaphor of environments that we navigate in the postmodern era.

The listener is presented with an image of several performers actively responding to a private, inner scenario that is related in varying degrees to the external embodiment of that dialogue. Confused and uninformed (as we are in general daily existence as to the mechanisms that convey our basic information systems), the listener creates a third composite reality of what is actually going on in the performance. Finally he or she is given the option to participate and enter into the private world and genus of this activity, to make his or her decisions and interactions based on personal choices of how to respond.

Cell Phone Ballet (0:34min mp3)

1. HMMM
2. Singing Maze, 2003
3. Cell Phone Ballet, 2000
4. Counting Game, 1995
5. NeverAlways, 1993