Folk Tales from Abroad
Two productions in one, “World Tales in Dance,” was a charming, crowd-pleasing afternoon of dance theatre.
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Saints and Sinners
In Jo Warren’s “All Mouth,” five dancers perform what could be an action scene from a movie with the playback speed slowed down and sound turned off. The expressions on their faces are exaggerated, their eyes eloquent. One shields her face from an attacker; another holds her throat with one hand while reaching out with the other in an imploring gesture; one throws back their head to laugh, mouth opened wide; hands squeeze into fists and punch the air, or cup around the mouth to whisper into another’s ear—all conducted in delicious, thick-as-molasses slow motion.
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Weaving the Story
The Pioneers Go East Collective's Out Front! Festival highlights “radical queer art + dance,” making it a perfect resident festival for the historic Judson Memorial Church. At Judson—the art, social justice, and spiritual venue where Judson Dance Theater and numerous other artists got their start—“radical queer” artists and thinkers are not only celebrated but canonized: stained glass portraits of James Baldwin, bell hooks, Bayard Rustin, and others don the church's walls, each one labeled “saint.”
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Life, Death, Little Deaths, and a New Year Too
Dominica Greene makes snow angels in a small pool of light. As the audience chatter at Danspace Project quiets down, she revs to life. Rocking and talking about a rickety fan found in her grandparents’ house in Guyana, her shakes and shudders illustrate the pleasure her body derives from the appliance’s particular rhythm.
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