Three choreographers show their work from the Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers Project.
How often does one have the opportunity to attend a lecture by a pioneer of post-modern dance?
Perhaps the program’s title, "An Offering," suggests that this is just a small quantity of what Phil Grosser has in store.
I felt my focus SHARPen as I was pulled into each piece.
Three distinct versions of the same Deborah Hay solo were performed by three Philadelphia artists.
The audience’s first responses: “Celebration. Bearing witness. Transparency. Shadows. Remembering. Nooses dropping. Acceptance. Pain. Repetition. Awesome.”
I chance upon pieces dancing around the Bride: Cage’s neat scores, Duchamp’s nudes descending shattered large glasses, Cunningham’s reeling dances.
In one night I witnessed the work of six aesthetically different artists and groups, some of whom had almost nothing to do with the others.
Representing difference, they give us new information about Africa and its many traditions.
Grace, attitude and ferocity in technique was balanced by big presence and a real joy in performing that I’d almost forgotten was possible.