Yesterday one of the choreographers about whose piece I had written expressed surprise at the style of my reviews. She felt that there was not as much analysis of the idea behind the show as she would like.
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The curtain is wide open and A drum set in the middle back of the stage…. Two women pace back and forth at the front of the stage examining spectat A man crosses the stage in woman’s shoe.
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From left to right: a panel written over English, the image of the artist pressed up against the wall, a panel written over in German: The initial message is this: hey dude i have talent, i’m just here waiting for god The artist bends over to each panel to change the writing gradually…. After about seven minutes, she finally rises and comes into the darkened theatre via the spectator entrance.
Leave a CommentAn enormous set of windows letting natural light stream in from overhead…. A crowd of one hundred and fifty spectators gathered around the dance floor.
Leave a CommentIlluminated in the middle Raw wooden tables in a large closed circle. The audience seated in two rows, around the ring, the second row on a raised platform.
Leave a CommentWhile some of the companies have provided excellent pictures which correspond to the show at hand – Opéra de Paris, Etienne Guilloteau, Jan Lauwers to name a few – others have offered pictures which have little or nothing to do with the stage performance…. While I understand these dance companies would like to protect their image, at the very least there should be an official Impulstanz photographer shooting every show in rehearsal and offering the company director or manager to approve or disapprove shots from the rehearsal photo session.
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I first saw this work or at least the core of it two years ago in the Vienna Volksopera…. There were works by four of the best of independent dance in Vienna that night (Tanztheater Homunculus and Tanz Hotel were two of the others).
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Another one of the poster productions of this year’s Impulstanz, Daniel Leveillé’s new work is graced not only by the strong image of three naked men flying but also by a chillingly poetic title The Modesty of Icebergs ( La pudeur des icebergs)…. The piece is difficult to describe as there was no particular narrative but rather a cyclical repetition of the same movements with an ensemble comprised mainly of three men but augmented at times to as many as five men and one woman.
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