Vervet Dance’s curated evening of five works featured artists from throughout the region. After dipping my toe into the potential of these artists’ works I left wanting more.
During this evening of three dances with a mixed gender company, Brown decides to devote one of the pieces to the six women.
Not only was Brown opening up her work for anybody’s interpretation and critique, she was opening up her life--and all the layers of identity therein.
For her experimental response to Meg Foley and J. Louis Makary's experimental show, Carolyn Merritt answers 12 questions.
Instead of being separated, can’t theatrical gesture and dance movement be mixed together to create something whole?
The emotion and the dynamism of the dancing transcend any language barrier.
The juxtaposition of the frightening terrorist soundtrack with the dancers' robust and alluring bodies is strange and haunting.
They resembled a well-trained army marching off to war: precise, focused, armored and ready.
Over time the body becomes less able in some ways but more eloquent in others.
Delicate execution of movement by extremely muscular bodies, athletic but thoughtful choreography, the scramble of gender role expectations.