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.
The siren song of mermaids in the Philly Dance community: the popularity of these mavens-of-the-deep can’t be denied.
During three hours as a visitor to Retrospective I was swept into the individual retrospectives of several of the dancers.
When I walked into choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective at MoMA PS1 there seemed to be nothing happening.
Rather than performing as dancers or musicians, each cast member became a truly hybrid cross, moving and sounding at the same time throughout the piece.