“Thinking about CONTACT, one word comes to mind: MOVING. It was visually powerful, stirring, emotionally MOVING. The performers were always MOVING, from one portrait to the next, one statement, one thought, one position to the next and so our eyes were MOVING to follow them. And our bodies, as audience members, free to find our own spaces and change places and discover new perspectives, we were always MOVING too. The discourse was MOVING in front of our faces and through our minds, from moment to moment, experience to experience, the conversation was MOVING to new ground. The performance was provocative, meaning it provoked us from our safe nooks, pried us from our holes, our narrow holes from which there is only one angle to view the world (and the war). We were MOVING to catch up, MOVING to slow down, or MOVING to stop. We entered the performance space, literally MOVING in line, hand upon shoulder, with a rhythmic voice in our ears, and in MOVING out again, hand upon shoulder, we listened again to the words MOVING in our heads. Yes, MOVING, I think, is the word to use.”

Tyler Boudreau
veteran, author Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of A Marine