Review: Las Vegas' new must-see show plays with animation, dance and what it means to be human
LAS VEGAS — There are multiple dance duets in "Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms," a mixed-media theatrical production that debuted last month on the Las Vegas Strip. They are highly acrobatic and borderline risque — this is Vegas, after all — and they are also feats of wonder, for the dance partner is not another human but an animated character.
Particle is his name, and he's a glowing white figure with a circular head and a rectangular body, a mix of simple shapes that can convey an array of human emotions via elastic, exaggerated movements. Animation, rooted in imagination, has long had the power to amplify human feelings and heighten reality. But in "Particle Ink," animation enters our reality, as Particle, for instance, leaps from wall to pillow, dashes across a bed curtain and even cries into a physical bucket.
"I wish I was 3D," Particle scrawls at one point on the wall, but
