Luke Rothchild and String Theory in the LA Times
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 01:35PM String Theory, L.A.'s 'big secret,' unravels its latest fusion of dance and performing art at Santa Monica's Broad Stage.
February 17, 2011|By Jason Kehe, Special to the Los Angeles Times
String Theory, a Los Angeles-based hybrid performance act that combines dance and a kind of sonic sculpture, has little to do with the field of particle physics that gives it its name. However, the two disparate entities do have one striking thing in common — most people have no idea how to explain either one.
There's no "one-liner elevator speech," as one of its dancers put it. "It just is," said another.
Even Dale Franzen, artistic director of the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, can't quite categorize the root genre of the show.
"I don't know what to call it, they don't know what to call it," she said. "It's String Theory; it's its own genre."
Which might be why she has brought it back again. Audience members were "flabbergasted," she said, when String Theory first performed at the Broad two years ago on Valentine's Day. This Saturday, String Theory will reprise that performance — but, because of the protean nature of the show and its creators, it will be an entirely new experience. New movement, new arrangements, a spectacular that has been unwound and rewoven again.
For most performance acts, changing venues means readjusting sound levels, maybe redoing some blocking. But for String Theory, moving from one stage to another means physically transforming both show and space.
For String Theory to work, every venue must be transformed into a massive instrument, a room-sized harp. Strings for that harp will stretch from a 6-foot resonator on the Broad stage, for example, all the way to the balcony ledge. At every venue, that distance is different and sometimes those strings can stretch to almost 1,000 feet — and remain perfectly playable. The harp has been re-created at the Kodak Theatre, Getty Center, L.A. Convention Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall, among other venues.
But the giant harp is just the beginning.
String Theory is a fusion of dance, sculpture and music. It's no accident that its three co-founders are each specialists in one of those fields. Holly Rothschild is a trained dancer; her husband, Luke Rothschild, is a sculptor and rock musician; and Joseph Harvey is a classically trained cellist. In 2002, they teamed up to form String Theory, recruiting collaborators from their respective spheres.
The score is defiantly eclectic, jumping from 15th century Spanish Renaissance to pop to modern rock to electronica. And don't overlook the multimedia video elements playing in the background.
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