Susan Marshall & Company - PLAY/PAUSE at ASU Gammage

With PLAY/PAUSE, Marshall embraces the collisions of high art and pop culture to create the ultimate mash-up: postmodern dance-theater meets indie rock on both real and virtual stages. Marshall couples her intimate, structured choreography with the seductiveness of pop culture to explore our complex relationship with the media we consume. The performance is counterpointed by original online music videos, aspects of which are incorporated into the live work. PLAY/PAUSE features an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, performed live by the members of the electric guitar quartet Dither and Mantra Percussion, that merges the iconic pop sound of electric guitar with abstract rhythms.