Logotype 03 premiere as part of Soloworks with Shirley Mordine, Colleen Halloran and Ann Boyd.

Atalee Judy, is a radically issues-oriented sound designer - choreographer of Breakbone DanceCo. Anyone unfamiliar with Atalee Judy's brand of stage rage most likely would have found her "logotype 03" piece - part of a series on emotionally tough topics like mental illness, suicide, and genocide - shocking and disturbing. I myself continue to vacillate between feeling violently pushed away and getting absorbed in Judy's sound-and video-heavy solos, which graphically tackle subjects in her self-described "bodyslam" technique.

But "logotype 03," which addressed dual themes of female image via bathroom symbols and the murder of women via spine-chilling flashes of crime photos, delivered a palpable cry for change. Judy, with a shaved head and white underwear and long men's tank, contorted in visual and aural torment and, by the end, collapsed into a cry of anguish so soulful, she seemed to be mourning all societal injustices over the ages. That was the reason enough to pay attention- no matter how off-putting and occasionally self-indulgent Judy's performance might be.