Novel Formats #2: The Set Up is part of a seven performance cycle initiated by dance artist Rachel Bernsen. Each prompted by the desire to rethink the understanding of and experience with improvisation as a form of performance and explore the boundaries between real time decision making and overt theatricality.
The Set Up, with a cast of five performers (three dancers and two musicians) engages the full, interactive ensemble while simultaneously activating continuously shifting subsets of trios within the group. The dynamic of three is this performance’s defining structure in an ongoing exploration of triadic synthesis, harmony, and discord within the larger interdisciplinary performing ensemble.
