The program blurb for But I Can Move states: “Two artists share their own cultural boundaries, specialties, changes and pleasure through text and movement performance.” The cultural differences do not come through easily, but the movement and some text both spoken and projected in English help explain what the artists were trying to accomplish. Movement is the highlight of the presentation, much aided by lighting and shadowy pastel projections in which what appear to be trees predominate. The two artists at first seem to be partners but are separated by their audience in the center of the theater as they walk in matched steps smoothly, each in his or her aisle, from the stage to the back of the theater. Same for their movement back. Then they come together in the center, just offstage. They speak but do they trust each other? Understand? Onstage, they dance together. They talk of ordinary things, even as they lie prostrate on the stage floor. After much of the same, they hope they may talk together. They walk off. Onto the stage comes a rectangular wooden room. Its inside is full of hung balloons. The woman interacts with them, causing a number of them to deflate and fall about the structure. A projected message may relate the overall movement and balloons to life experiences. The point of it all seems to be that there can be hope, possibly in humans moving and talking together. That is, communicating.
