Where Anything Can Happen and Usually Does Acrobatics and High Winds in ‘Fuerza Bruta: Wayra’
LAURA COLLINS-HUGHESJuly 9, 2014: You know that part, right before the show starts, when they tell you where the emergency exits are? Usually, it’s not the most ear-catching information. But should you find yourself in a crowded theater that’s so thickly clouded with pink-lit stage fog that no exit signs are visible, and they skip the part about where to find them, you might feel the tiniest bit alarmed. Fuerza Bruta: Wayra, at the Daryl Roth Theater, skips that part, or at least it did the other night. This latest bit of sensory-overload brand extension from Diqui James and Gaby Kerpel, of De la Guarda, is a shiny, ever-shifting kinetic spectacle bent on disorientation. A high-volume, augmented remix of Fuerzabruta, which ran at the Daryl Roth Theater for more than six years, this energetic 80-minute show is rife with acrobatics, throbbing music, many-colored lights and storm-speed wind machines. All of the intermittent live music and a few of the scenes are new, including “Globa,” a giant bubble inflated over the crowd for acrobatic purposes. “Vela,” a scene that was once in Fuerzabruta but was taken out years ago, is resurrected here: a shimmering, two-sided climbing wall maneuvered through the audience like a parade float, a man on one side, a woman on the other.
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