Dance Anywhere Interview with Lisa Townsend Co.

2016-03-18T21:42:13-07:00By |Categories: Archive, Artists in Residence, CounterPULSE, Images, Lisa Townsend|

  DA: You mention that indifference is based on Albert Camus' The Stranger. How did you decide to use this novel as inspiration for your performance?  LTCo: As a reflection on the absurdity of free will, indifference questions the troubling impenitence experienced by Camus' protagonist, Meursault. What if free will, which we hold so dear as a marker of individual freedom, actually engenders a lack of empathy for those around us? Does our experience of the world then simply become a series of self-affirming reactions to