Fuerza Bruta Unleashes Brute Force of Nature
Fuerza Bruta is the ultimate live theatre experience. Maybe that’s because it brings the audience so close to catastrophic death. The multidisciplinary extravaganza unleashes the brute force of nature: Air, Fire, Wind and Water; tornados, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Fuerza Bruta electrifies the senses from the moment the audience is ushered from the loading dock of the Ziff Opera House into the G Spot Lounge, a black-curtained waiting room designed by Barton G. that throbs with blue lights, high-powered fans, and plasma televisions.
The show opens with the floor vibrating as though a volcano were about to erupt, revealing right away that the audience is inside the show.
Arrayed on the stage, we are draped by swaths of silver curtain and lit up by a flashlight that sweeps across the crowd like a spotlight. The performance takes place overhead, where bodies bathed in vibrant magenta, silver, gold and kelly green swish through a Plexiglas swimming pool.
The dancers, dressed in stylish 60s attire, alternately amble or run for their lives, passing each other on a gigantic treadmill. Their expressions range from fear to joy to world-weariness. Is this a disaster or just the daily rat race of go, go, go, and do, do, do?
The most powerful element in the show is water, purifying the soul and releasing inhibitions. In tranquil moments in the midst of the action, fans blow a cool mist over the heads of the audience. Elsewhere huge fountain sprays from the ceiling. Dancers glide across the pool, then suddenly slam their bodies in the water like mini-tornadoes.
Even immersed in water, the dancers are on fire. Each one exudes excitement in every gesture. The show is filled with an emotional quality that is absolutely breath taking and awe inspiring. Brooke Miyaski is a stand out, her own force of nature whether she is rolling like a stone tossed about by a cyclone or quietly pressing her face against the bottom of the pool. At the end of this scene, we see our own faces reflected in the pool like red rose petals floating in Koe pond.
Fureza Bruta concludes with the three frenzied performers running at full speed up a flight of stairs, then leaping into mid-air and crashing into walls. We leave, awed by the power of nature and the fearlessness of the performers.
If You Go
Fureza Bruta is playing at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in the Ziff Opera House through August 9. General admission is $65. $20 rush tickets are raffled each night, one hour prior to show time.
Fuerza Bruta electrifies the senses from the moment the audience is ushered from the loading dock of the Ziff Opera House into the G Spot Lounge, a black-curtained waiting room designed by Barton G. that throbs with blue lights, high-powered fans, and plasma televisions.
The show opens with the floor vibrating as though a volcano were about to erupt, revealing right away that the audience is inside the show.
Arrayed on the stage, we are draped by swaths of silver curtain and lit up by a flashlight that sweeps across the crowd like a spotlight. The performance takes place overhead, where bodies bathed in vibrant magenta, silver, gold and kelly green swish through a Plexiglas swimming pool.
The dancers, dressed in stylish 60s attire, alternately amble or run for their lives, passing each other on a gigantic treadmill. Their expressions range from fear to joy to world-weariness. Is this a disaster or just the daily rat race of go, go, go, and do, do, do?
The most powerful element in the show is water, purifying the soul and releasing inhibitions. In tranquil moments in the midst of the action, fans blow a cool mist over the heads of the audience. Elsewhere huge fountain sprays from the ceiling. Dancers glide across the pool, then suddenly slam their bodies in the water like mini-tornadoes.
Even immersed in water, the dancers are on fire. Each one exudes excitement in every gesture. The show is filled with an emotional quality that is absolutely breath taking and awe inspiring. Brooke Miyaski is a stand out, her own force of nature whether she is rolling like a stone tossed about by a cyclone or quietly pressing her face against the bottom of the pool. At the end of this scene, we see our own faces reflected in the pool like red rose petals floating in Koe pond.
Fureza Bruta concludes with the three frenzied performers running at full speed up a flight of stairs, then leaping into mid-air and crashing into walls. We leave, awed by the power of nature and the fearlessness of the performers.
If You Go
Fureza Bruta is playing at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in the Ziff Opera House through August 9. General admission is $65. $20 rush tickets are raffled each night, one hour prior to show time.