Josef Nadj's performance Paso Doble uses which substance in common with Rodrigo Garcia in his performance Throw My Two Cents on Mickey?

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Both pieces use a tangible, messy material as a dramatic device: mud. In contemporary performance work, choreographers and directors often employ physical substances (water, mud, blood, honey) to alter movement, texture, and audience perception. Knowing that both Josef Nadj’s Paso Doble and Rodrigo García’s Throw My Two Cents on Mickey are noted for their visceral, material staging points to a shared use of mud.

Step-by-step reasoning:
1. Identify the candidates: Lighting, Fire, Mud, Honey, Frogs. The question asks which substance is used in common by the two named performances.
2. Determine what counts as a “substance”: Lighting is a technical element (not a physical substance), while fire, mud, honey, and frogs are physical materials or living things.
3. Compare documented staging choices: Reviews and production notes for Nadj’s Paso Doble describe performers interacting with earth or mud to emphasize weight, primal gestures, and bodily traces. Similarly, Rodrigo García’s Throw My Two Cents on Mickey is described in critical accounts as including performers smeared with or moving through mud to evoke degradation, ritual, or theatrical transgression.
4. Conclude commonality: Both works therefore share mud as a material element integral to their staging.

Why mud is correct:
- Mud functions as a sensory and symbolic medium in both pieces, creating visual contrast, altering gait and balance, and leaving marks that emphasize the body’s relationship to the ground. That specific, tactile quality is what ties the two performances together.

Why the other options are incorrect:
- Lighting: Important to both performances but not a “substance” and not the distinctive shared material cited in texts about these works.
- Fire: Dramatic but not documented as a common element in these two pieces.
- Honey: Occasionally used by some performance artists, but not noted for these two works.
- Frogs: Unlikely and not supported by descriptions of either performance.

Therefore, the correct shared substance is Mud, which matches the provided answer.

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