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Zerosum's central metaphor dissected competition and the artist’s creative process. Particularly, the tacit disagreements that affect company members and their director, the relentless pursuit of an elusive muse, and the so-called distance between spectators and participants. To this point, the audience engaged in limited yet significant interplay with the performers. The piece was giddy with theatricality: bright colors, the slamming doors of bedroom farce, and a silly twist on danse macabre—all seen under the aegis of marathon-running. 

 

Zerosum was a playful, delightfully disorienting modern dance theater piece that incorporated storytelling, word-games, changing spaces and social drinking, a truly "immersive" theatrical experience before audiences knew the word for it.