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"Thank You, Gregory' at Annenberg (1st review)
Fascinating rhythms, from Keeler to Hines
Thank You, Gregory successfully reaches both knowledgeable tap dance aficionados and novices who just want to be entertained. But why rely on video when there's so much live talent in the wings?
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SCRAP's "Tide' at Live Arts Festival
A tide of bereft desolation
Myra Bazell and Madison Cario's apocalyptic Tide was danced with such energetic angst that it lost its creators' hopeful message of the potential for healing and a new consciousness.
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Dorner's "above under inbetween' at Live Arts Festival
Love me, love my table
The Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner brought his explorations of bodies in space indoors, presenting a slyly humorous work that suggested that we relate more closely to the objects in our domestic lives than we think.
Above under inbetween. Compagnie Willi Dorner/ Live Arts festival production September 11-12, 2009 at ICE Box Projects Space, 1400 N. American St. 215.413.9006 or www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=8370.
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Merián Soto's "Postcards from the Woods' at Live Arts Festival
Bringing nature indoors
After cavorting outdoors for years, Merián Soto and her dedicated dancers enabled an indoor audience to experience a meditative connection to nature outside.
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"A.W.A.R.D. Show' at Live Arts Festival
Dancing for dollars
This year's Live Arts Festival went out on a limb by pitting 12 Philadelphia choreographers against each other for a $10,000 first prize. This gimmick boosted attendance and helped raise dance consciousness. But how does a popularity contest affect a collegial and creative community?
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Headlong's "more' at Live Arts Festival (2nd review)
When dancers aren't 'dancing'
Headlong's more juxtaposes the ordinariness of domestic life with the life of the artist. But what makes this dance and choreography— art that BSR's Jim Rutter has questioned— is that these meanings are communicated through bodies in and out of motion, and through movement gestures and movement vocabulary.
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"Mortal Engine' by Chunky Move at Live Arts Festival
Humanity meets technology (successfully, for a change)
Rarely have we seen such a full integration between body and technology as the Australian choreographer Gideon Obarzanek's Mortal Engine achieved at the Wilma.
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Headlong's "more' at Live Arts Festival (1st review)
Is it art, or just movement?
When dancers rearrange furniture and operate a microwave oven, is it choreography? The cumulative experience of Headlong's new and very poignant piece of dance theater left me feeling both invigorated and disturbed.
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Melanie Stewart's "Kill Me Now' at Live Arts Festival
'They Shoot Horses' meets 'The Gong Show'
Choreographer Melanie Stewart and writer John Clancey seize on the pop-culture mania of dance contest shows to examine the sadistic role of competition in our society and in capitalism. To make their point, they enlist the audience as co-conspirators.
Kill Me Now. By John Clancey; choreographed by Melanie Stewart. Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre/ Live Arts Festival production September 4-7, 2009 at Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. (at South St.). 215.413.1318 or www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=8371.
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Kate Watson-Wallace's "Store' at Live Arts Festival
A gospel for consumers
Kate Watson-Wallace's “anonymous bodies” troupe brought its audience to an abandoned Rite-Aid pharmacy, now transformed into a set for a shopping network's infomercial. The choreographed tight, manic rhythmic dancing contrasted tellingly with the surrounding consumer chaos.
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