Alexandra Barbier has been dancing her whole life — and she’s also watched dance as a passive audience member her whole life.
“I got to a point that watching dance just wasn’t enough,” Barbier said. “I wanted to experience something different as an audience member. And so I thought, how do I create that for someone who might also be feeling that way?”
Barbier’s dance piece, “Be My Guest,” will be one of several interactive audience shows at the 2019 Great Salt Lake Fringe festival, which begins this week. In creating it, she wanted to shift attention away from herself and let the audience help guide her performance.