Traces

Both Traces and Hair are highly unique performances. In a way both shows have the same base premise, but execute the point in different ways. Traces highlight “Trace” we each leave on the world. Chalk is used almost immediately to show that every time you so much as move part of you are left behind on something or even some one. Through the use of personal stories and stunning acrobatics the cast connects with the audience in a way that I have never seen in a show before. The story is not told not only by words, but through the use of movements and facial expressions. As the show

progresses the emotions portrayed by the cast are easy to not only see but feel. Slowly the audience becomes part of the tale as the seven friends highlight their mark on the world. The seven artists breathtakingly use dance, acrobatics, drawing, song, instruments, and even sports to captivate the audience. Throughout the video I was privileged to take the sounds of awe and excitement is heard as the cast successfully stuns the viewer. I found my eyes constantly shifting as they tried to follow the movements of the cast as they drew with chalk on the stage floor.Technically the show was amazingly handled, the lighting perfectly complemented the movements on the stage and as a sound tech and stage hand it is incredibly hard to get the timing right when anything comes from the ceiling, wither it is a microphone or a women on ropes! Traces is my favorite show so far!