Wonderbound dance company has been dazzling the Denver community with their unique and fun dance performances since 2007 with Artistic Director Garrett Ammon at the helm. The imaginative dance troupe teamed up with local band Chimney Choir to create a performance based on the unique experience of living in Denver during the so called “boom” we all have been experiencing. True to form, the performance was a graceful and creative homage to our booming city, and the live music from Chiminey Choir set the stage perfectly with their folksy western accompaniment, giving the performance a contemporary edge.

The performance starts out in an apartment in what appears to be an uninspired city away from the hustle and bustle of city living, where our main character, played by Dylan G-Bowley, appears to be bored with his hum-drum life. Daily rituals such as pacing aimlessly around an apartment and tuning into the television only to see a barrage of advertisements and programs aimed as selling something made the opening sequence a contemporary muse on the banalities of modern living. A rubber duck became the emblem of status, progress, and money throughout the show.

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Back in October, Eric Schaefer of Comcast held a COIN Summit talk about the Internet of Things, and he mentioned that, as the nation’s largest internet service provider, Comcast may be uniquely positioned to help the IoT realize its true potential. With their power and network — expanding the IoT frontier to places it might not reach otherwise could prove to be a feasible task.

Today — only a few months later — we’re watching the reality of that task come to fruition right here in Colorado.

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Last week, Boomtown, a startup accelerator founded and operated by a group of media, marketing and technology veterans, announced a partnership with Comcast Labs to build one of the world’s first IoT labs in Downtown Boulder. 

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