The Girl With the Alkaline Eyes

A 70-minute Dance-Theater Thriller

THE GIRL WITH THE ALKALINE EYES

The future.

A technologist toils through the night building a secret project: a woman, with circuitry instead of flesh and eyes that shine electric blue. But man and machine are connected by a deep desire that sparks an irreversible chain of lust, creation, and destruction.

Produced + performed by

The Chase Brock Experience

Scenario + SCORE BY

Eric Dietz

DIRECTED + CHOREOGRAPHED BY

Chase Brock

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“I found it one of the best original compositions I have heard for dance in a long time. It can convey computer dilemmas, man’s search for love, and a dance at some sleazy nightclub. Really first rate. I wonder what (Dietz) will deliver in the future.”

— Barnett Serchuk / BROADWAY WORLD

“…Dietz’s enjoyable post-minimalist score shimmers and pulsates with an echoing, electronic sheen as the music drives the story forward with anxious energy. Keyboards and strings, performed live and mixed with prerecorded music, render the attractive, Philip Glass-y score with a satisfying fullness of sound…”

— Michael Sommers / New York Stage Review

“The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes is a unique dance-theater piece that melds theatrical conventions with dance innovations to create a show with many twists, turns, and technical ideas. A wild ride through the potential world of artificial intelligence… For dance lovers and theater people alike, this shocking story will resonate with anyone who owns an iPhone. It is not to be missed.”

— Brooke Viegut / Theatre Is Easy Best Bet

“With Eric Dietz’s moving original score, performed live by a trio helmed by Rob Berman, the complexities of emotion and machine are effortlessly mixed to follow the shocking twists this story takes. With movement vocabulary ranging from finger pulses to walking patterns to technical ballet, Brock pulls from his entire tool box to differentiate between humans and robots, and to blur the lines between both…”