Jacob

Jakob is a performance that presents us with two men who express a lot of emotions and send out a message through dance, movement and music. This performance was more abstract, and was open to multiple points of view. The dancers left it up to each person to interpret the performance in their own way.

All the SUSers agree that the performance was something different to what we've seen in dance performances before. They used effects such as turning the sound on and off, and

I think that in this way they got the audience to be very focused, in addition to us getting very close to the dancers when they added the music to certain parts. I noticed that once they turned on a stronger light, it became much easier to lean "back" for us in the audience. I thought it was a bit unusual at first when there was no sound, but as I got used to it, it worked as a cool effect. 

You can interpret the performance as a relationship between two people. It seemed like they went through several phases during the play. Sometimes they didn't trust each other, while other times they were very intimate. The fact that two boys are dancing together leads many of us to automatically think that these two could well be friends, even though they were dancing very intimately. If this had been a girl and a boy, we would have automatically assumed that they were boyfriends. This thought was challenged during the performance. 

During the performance, I didn't understand everything that was happening at any given time. The performance was very open and they weren't trying to teach us anything specific. The dancers didn't require the audience to have a specific interpretation of the piece either. That's what made this performance different, because there were no forced emotions. It just seemed like they wanted to show what they had in their own way without demanding that anyone learn anything from it. 

We think the piece is best suited to those who are interested in abstract pieces, and it seemed like a performance that would first appeal to those who are good at reading dance. Jakob is a piece that is very nice to discuss together afterwards, in addition to the fact that the dancers are very talented.

Greetings to this year's SUSers!