Even the programs are drawn out as one long panel of shifting shapes and figures, rather than written, which leaves each viewer free to decide what is happening on stage. We are not telling the audience what they have to see or understand. They don't have to walk out of the show and think, 'Oh my god, I didn't understand anything. They are respected as a whole human being. Yes, in some ways.
Performers freely borrow from other disciplines, with a resultant blurring of boundaries.
For instance, the Portland, Oregon-based Imago, which in the early '80s was often compared with Mummenschanz, now has veered toward conventional dramatic theater with a decidedly unconventional use of object and movement. For a recent production, Imago developed a set that moves and tilts around a central pivot point. Many modern-dance companies also are enthusiastic fusionists, incorporating elements of mime, spoken word, acrobatics, and other disciplines into their performances. There isn't anymore this aesthetic vision of the body like it used to be in earlier years. It is how we started.