Last week I saw a visualisation of pain and suffering: the ballet Echo/Painthings by Rogie & Company. When the lights came on after the applause, the audience remained silently seated for a couple of minutes, as if struck with a large bamboo pole.
ECHO/PAINTHINGS - Modern dance
Choreography: Piet Rogie
Dance: Maud Andreani, Horne Horneman, Kevin Polak, Marlene Raker, Jessica van Ruschen, Suet Wan Tsang
Tour: until January 23, 2005
Interweb: http://www.rogie-company.nl (I cannot link to it, because it is Flash-only)