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Article: Dance troupe is game for some heavy lifting
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2008
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Stages
A collection of playground equipment, including a seesaw, a
slide, and some jungle gym pieces, forms the unlikely set for the
twisted dance/rock opera "Games of Steel."
"We started with the idea of using Archimedes's simple machines,"
says Michele de la Reza, co-artistic director of Pittsburgh-based
Attack Theatre, which brings "Games of Steel" to the Cutler Majestic
Theatre tonight through Sunday. "Then we gathered our musicians and
dancers together to brainstorm. Our neighbor here is Red Star
Ironworks, and we thought we might work with them on props. Our
philosopher in residence [University of Pittsburgh history and
philosophy of science professor Peter Machamer] was explaining ...