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2.10.05
zero arrow theatre
i don't really want to say much about this concert because for some reason lots of people (see various reviews/previews) have chosen to take this idea as a cause -- the mixed choreographer commission program. i think i have thoughts on this, but not right now. basically, did people just get that it is not the greatest idea to commission people to make pieces they would already make and produce in their own concerts. my guess is the idea about getting money for commissions is to bring something new to the audience or give choreographers the opportunity to do something that they aren't normally able to do. basically, none of the four pieces for this program did that.
that said, i did enjoy the hoi polloi piece quite a bit. at first glimpse i think i would be turned off...four sets of high heeled pumps, tearing paper, sound collage. not another one of those. but there was actually dancing and phrases that had a point and conveyed something of a narrative. seeing a narrative in modern dance i think is a little off putting at first, even invasive, since i've grown so use to letting bland monotonal work wash over me and afterwards maybe remembering a sense of the work or a few key moments if lucky. but while this piece "day of the 24 cakes", was not a story that you had to follow, a sense of story did provide a structure from which i could get, interpret, and prod the dance phrases for meaning or impetus, which made me want to see the piece again and read the journals of sylvia plath. it left me thinking.
2.10.05
zero arrow theatre
i don't really want to say much about this concert because for some reason lots of people (see various reviews/previews) have chosen to take this idea as a cause -- the mixed choreographer commission program. i think i have thoughts on this, but not right now. basically, did people just get that it is not the greatest idea to commission people to make pieces they would already make and produce in their own concerts. my guess is the idea about getting money for commissions is to bring something new to the audience or give choreographers the opportunity to do something that they aren't normally able to do. basically, none of the four pieces for this program did that.
that said, i did enjoy the hoi polloi piece quite a bit. at first glimpse i think i would be turned off...four sets of high heeled pumps, tearing paper, sound collage. not another one of those. but there was actually dancing and phrases that had a point and conveyed something of a narrative. seeing a narrative in modern dance i think is a little off putting at first, even invasive, since i've grown so use to letting bland monotonal work wash over me and afterwards maybe remembering a sense of the work or a few key moments if lucky. but while this piece "day of the 24 cakes", was not a story that you had to follow, a sense of story did provide a structure from which i could get, interpret, and prod the dance phrases for meaning or impetus, which made me want to see the piece again and read the journals of sylvia plath. it left me thinking.
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