Drop the name Pilobolus in a crowd and you’ll find out how cultured (or un-)your friends are. If you know anything, even peripherally, about real concert dance you will know what these four strange syllabi mean… and if you don’t, you should. When I think of Pilobolus I think of the human sculpture […]
You can tell a lot about a company by how they run together. If the steps are out of sync or tentative, the execution of the choreography probably is as well. When The Trey McIntyre Project runs across the stage it is powerful. They have the drive of a pack of wolves and are as […]
How do two dancers look like an entire company and one musician sound like a whole band, you ask? How does a figure appear live on stage with a male torso and female legs or two sets of legs coming from the same belly button? How can a movie, set in an industrial city, […]
The conversational stylings of Joe Goode graced the stage at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Theater. Every now and then you get an artist who gives something else, something UN-catagorizeable. I would describe this piece as a full length dance theater production. The Rambler (2011) starts off with Goode, himself, casually strolling on in his […]
Ronald K. Brown has been in the dance making biz since the age of 19,years later he is still at it. He founded his company, EVIDENCE, in 1985 .In my life, as a young sponge of a dancer, I’ve had the pleasure of crossing his path at workshops and summer intensives such as the American […]
When you think street dance, does high abstract French art come to mind? Imagine a giant, rectangular, three dimensional, glow in the dark box. Now see tiny colorful lights within the depths of this strange alien shape, skittering like fireflies in a jar. The music, by Julien Lepreux, is a delicate piano score superimposed with […]
