And, personally, I have no particular objection to an occasional verbal explanation, though this may come during or after a piece rather than before, giving the audience the chance to react innocently to a work. Reality bytes A description of our work, in fact, any work with computers , can not be complete without some mention of the risks. I am referring instead to the much more banal and everyday problems of computer use. For example, they screw up. This is the real world of new computer technology and not to discuss it would paint an incomplete picture.
Rehearsals are interminably tedious and, perhaps worse, unpredictable things can happen on stage.
Personally I think a case can be made that computers are inherently unreliable. Without a similar level of engineering prudence, a certain number of technical snafus are essentially inevitable. Some would argue that their instability makes computers unfit for the stage, but I would say no more so than for many of the other areas of our lives they are infiltrating. If one wishes to make art which deals with computers, then it must also deal with the question of risk. Resistance to the use of computers in the dance world is deep-rooted and not really hard for me, as a dancer, to understand.