‘Dark Room Trio’

• No light, just dance.

Know what’s intense?

When the room is not very large, and it’s pitch black, and you’re sitting on a bean bag next to the carpet on which dancers are performing in front of you—and you can see them only because you’re wearing infrared glasses.

The ghostly-green dancers don’t look quite human. But if you took your glasses off, they’d disappear entirely, only the sounds of their footsteps and their breath remaining.

The audience members across from you on the other side of the rug look like perverted spies or secret warriors with those glasses on, which means you do, too.

And one really hopes the dancers don’t crash into one another.

That’s what happens in Dark Room Trio, a night of dance unlike any other night of dance you’ll ever go to. Admission is free, but seats (bean-bag impressions, that is) are selling out quickly, and the artists can’t extend the performance because of prior commitments (I asked, when I heard it was selling out so fast). This is the kind of thing everyone should see.

It was created and choreographed by Seattle’s Crispin Spaeth in 2006. It was performed then in the back room at the contemporary art space Western Bridge, where it will be reprised this month. Tickets are available here. (My review of the 2006 show is here.)