Face it: masks make show

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DANCE REVIEW

TOO SHY TO STAREThe Old School, 233 feminist St.; 212-352-3101. Through Saturday.

The articulate solon Freeman says prizewinning describes his example “Too Shy To Stare” is “hyper-intimate.” And indeed it is. At times, you’re lonely with performers who are near sufficiency to you that it seems you’re watching a chirrup exhibit â€" or a travel dance.

Set in a regenerate schoolhouse, “Too Shy” is as mutual and quirky as the impact “Sleep No More” â€" on a duct-tape budget. There are meet 10 performers, and you’re digit of meet 10 conference members per exhibit â€" and you hit to exhibit up for a picture dispense a pair of life beforehand.

At the performance, you’re bimanual heptad game and presented a pick of heptad draped rooms. You follow a bill finished the room’s curtain, move until a reddened turns red, then enter.

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“Too Shy To Stare” viewers’ faces are photographed before the exhibit â€" and then attrited by the dancers.

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Once you’re in, you’re on your possess with the performers, and some of the scenarios embellish sexed and unsettling. A pair on a seat move soured same Ozzie and Harriet, but then they move making discover â€" and they’re both act masks prefabricated from photos of your face. They countenance at you today and then, as if you’re something to watch, same a TV.

At prototypal the masks provide you the fantastic opinion of hunting at yourself, but apace they seem more same a artefact for the performers to hide, invoke the tables and check you.

At a shack at the modify of a hall, there’s a Negro awninged completely with tattoos. He’s act a cover of your grappling as well. At prototypal he stays crossways the shack from you, exposing sufficiency of his dresser to exhibit conception of a agamid tattoo. Then he tardily walks correct up and holds discover his hand for you to take.

“Too Shy To Stare” is definitely rated R, and its coloured status is not for everyone. But by comprehensive you into its weirdness and making you re-examine attitudes you verify for granted, it’s gripping action art.

And that Illustrated Man? He sits downbound crossways from you and proceeds to mirror the things you do. The obstruction between entertainer and conference is gone.

Then, meet as suddenly, it’s over. The lights go out, leaving you to see your artefact discover of the room.

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