idiosynCrazy productions worked the Live Arts Studio in intricate and intimate ways that ignored the audience’s need for personal space.
Headlong and the Aryadareis created a “third space” that honors both performers and guests as fully human and undoubtedly welcome.
I can see these dancers working through ideas of physical intelligence. They are at home in their bodies, at home in making, and I can just tell that they are having a rip-roaring good time.
Clowning at its finest, and terrifically funny... Bang’s “meaning” was ultimately drowned out by mirth, mayhem, and mashups.
The clarity of the movement’s attack and its clear lines and arcs in gestures, body shapes, and pathways reminded me of the power of classic modern dance in its search for expression of the universal...
One song in the evening’s soundtrack plugged “the more you drink, the better we look,” but honestly, these girls didn’t need any help here...
In her new book, Susan Rethorst asks dance-makers to enter the philosophical realm.
The post-moderns not only asked “what is dance?” but also “who can or should the dancer be?”. The latter question will soon receive the resounding answer--“Everyone!"
After a mere five classes at the 2012 Illadelph Festival produced by Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), I am in love with hip-hop. I am not entirely surprised.