Event

"Pandemonium"

"Pandemonium"
February 2014
The Hartley House
413 W. 46th St. New York, NY 10036
www.touchtheorydance.com

"Pandemonium," is a work over two years in the making. It is a reflection of the growth of the Touch Theory Dance Company a non-profit dance company. "From the very beginning of our inception we knew we wanted to tell this story" Jen Montoya, choreographer. The thematic inspiration for the work is loosely based on John Milton's Paradise Lost. Pandemonium itself is the name of the home the demon Mulciber constructed for Lucifer and his followers.

In our version of the tale we borrow mythos from the story of Narcissus and Echo. We have God and the Devil in a very passionate relationship until one day God realizes that his truest love is himself so he creates man in his image. A love triangle evolves between the Devil, God, and man, which sends their home into a state of chaos. The work is a study of relationships; the way they can be put on a pedestal and the way they sometimes fail.