Shay Kuebler / Radical System Art - Epilogos

With typical audacity, Shay Kuebler and his indefatigable dancers light up the stage once again with a new work, cleverly transposing into movement the philosopher Aristotle’s view on the art of persuasion.  

A skillful blend of dance, theatre, martial arts, video and live sound, Epilogos is a fable about crowd manipulation techniques. How do power systems and the media manage to hold up a reality-distorting mirror? How can we stir and engage the passions of the audience? These questions form the underlying theme of Epilogos, which focuses on the catalyst character of “the orator,” around whom the dance unfolds in all directions. An ingenious array of biomechanical sensors has the ability to affect the entire performance environment and the dancers’ movements. With this fifth supercharged creation for his eloquently-named company, Radical System Art, Shay Kuebler hits it out of the park.