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Saturday, May 04, 2002

 
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last night i went to sushi for the first time, to see laura makey perform as part of the zero2one dance project. laura is a geography instructor and webct user and i had no idea she was this cool. garrett hates her (which i suppose should have ben my first clue ;).

because this was a culmination of a 3.5 month mentor/workshop, there were five different choreographers and we actually were requested to write our impressions between pieces. i wish i had my notes, but they were collected for later review by the artists. so here's what i remember.

blue river spiral: meant to be calm & serene, i found it to be the weakest of the group. i had very little emotional investment, and it seemed like the dancers didn't, either. however, it was pretty -- nice costumes and rocks.

amy's piece: good use of repetition & symmetry. some nice intro slides which just didn't seem to fit in with the actual dancing. interesting, but maudlin; overall, i was left vaguely unsatisfied.

volaka: laura's piece & one of my favorites. full of contrasts. some of the words i remember writing: "stark. blind. fear. out. out. more and more and more. thin. winter. brave." she seemed very exposed. and yet at one point, she seemed like a giraffe, and again, a spiky iris. volaka appears to be the name of a city in greece, or "a powerful whirlpool."

pomegranate: of fruit and darkness: energetic, dynamic, fluid. a brilliant dancer; the vocals were muddy, though, and very, very odd.

torn: my other favorite piece. fluid, surging. one of the more "classical" dancing pieces, almost ballet-like. pushing & pulling; freedom & restraint.

afterwards, the artists gathered onstage & the audience could ask questions.