Event (Kai Althoff)

I have a crush on Kai Althoff.

I confess. If I were to marry a German, it would most definitely be him. His show at the VAG was refreshing. I Will be Last was a collaborative dance/theatre piece that was performed live at the show's opening and then remained as a video for the duration of the show. One by one did the dancers emerge from a hand-crafted room divider. Dressed in medieval looking hip-hop garb, they swayed in a sort of ancient uprock, moved to the pre-established sounds of Kai's band The Workshop. The music was minimal synth pop. Sometimes the dancers would come out with plastic boom boxes. Sometimes they looked like mimes, like paintings of mimes. Their choreography was like someone who goes to a dance not expecting to do any of it and ends up rocking the show.