#capfringe15

Glade found that out of our audiences, less than half (45%) actually used that uncensored internet to read censored or banned material.

7-in-10 Americans consider an uncensored internet very important. https://t.co/cxpp7bJqmN pic.twitter.com/dOcDbkcSTS

Collecting and analyzing data was a big theme in Mine/Field. How do you stack up against our aggregated data across all six performances for Capital Fringe 2015? 

For our July 15 show, it was mostly female Millennials who chose Friends/Family.

"Only because I insult them behind their backs," wrote-in one audience member on July 19.

On our July 18 show, no one in the Boomer category copped to reading banned or censored material. 

All the Boomers at our July 21 show said "No" to "Do you feel safe online?"

It wasn't until the end of the run - July 25 - that audience members started writing commentary on our generation breakdowns. One Boomer wrote "The Jimmy Paige generation." Millenials said "snake person" "ugh" "I hate the term" "genY!"

An audience member of Mine/Field

Other feedback we have received:

"It made me want to go home and change all my passwords."

"I wondered how you were going to keep my attention for 50 minutes but you easily did - the piece moved, beautifully, throughout the entire time."

Mine/Field "is a testament to the work and dedication of Glade Dance Collective’s dancers. Their strong direct faces and punctuated movement build a delicious tension on stage."

So Fringe is one of my very favorite things about D.C., art, summer, theater, dance. and community. I performed in the first Cap Fringe 10 years ago, and I was delighted that Glade decided to make its Fringe debut this year. The big question: what would we do? Could we be true to both Glade and the spirit of Fringe? Last fall, Glade decided to find a topic for our new dance by asking our friends, fans, and strangers to suggest topics. As we voted different suggestions up or down the list, I was disappointed to see one dealing with national security and data collection making its way higher and higher. It sounded wonky, dull, and uncomfortable to me--I prefer to hide some of my data as much as I can, and I'm wasn't sure where I stood on some of the bigger issues. What's more, I wasn't interested in devoted precious dance time to figuring it out. Then we started work. And I volunteered to lead a rehearsal or two. So I needed a way in, and I started thinking about my internet browsing. I considered the times when keeping a secret is vitally important, and the times when it's even more important to broadcast a secret to the world, empowering the speaker and possibly neutralizing the secret's potential to damage or hurt the speaker or his/her peers. Often these moments relate to illness or abuse, and victims can become survivors when they broadcast their experiences. We all have secrets. We are generally bad at keeping them (hence the popularity of Post Secret). What are your secrets? Which secrets will Glade tell, and which will we keep? Check out the show to find out! And while you're there, don't forget to tell us your secrets. I'm immensely proud of the work that Glade has produced over the last 9 months and can't wait to share it with the world! But I still don't like sharing my data, and I'm not sure that my positions on data collection and national security have gained much clarity or consistency. I'm just glad to have been part of the process and the finished product!