Pants On Fire

Lies have many permutations: little white ones you tell your loved ones to avoid hurting feelings, more dicey lies with which you delude yourself and others, and big whoppers meant to wreak havoc. Now, there are also Lies You Can Dance To. San Francisco dance luminary Jo Kreiter has her eye on globally significant fibs and fictions, and examines the power of lies to damage whole democracies. Specifically, Kreiter and her fleet of fearless aerial performers at Flyaway Productions examine how political lies become entrenched in the visceral responses of the body. With an original score by Beth Custer that weaves together sparse soundscapes and disembodied voices (including an intimate epistle from Kreiter to the federal government), Kreiter's dancers wend through a complex web of hanging objects, from newspapers to cheeky scales of justice. How easy it is to "follow your gut" while untangling truth from invention?
Sept. 14-16, 8 p.m.