On the face of it, these two short pieces performed by the mighty Scottish Dance Theatre have little in common....
A stagehand dressed in black makes the most of their invisibility cloak to move props into position.
The great horned owl makes the most of their night vision to seek out their prey with efficiency. Swoop, snatch, gobble, gone.
This week, I found myself curled up in the corner of my kitchen, shaking. It comes over me swiftly, sometimes,...
Modern dance audiences should learn how to roar. Until then, companies must collaborate with indie rock stars if they want...
“Please continue.” “The experiment requires that you continue.” “It is absolutely essential that you continue.” “You must go on, there...
Arthur Janov, the recently deceased nonagenarian psychologist who developed primal scream therapy, would, no doubt, have felt right at home experiencing “Attractor,” a ritualistic, twerky-jerky rave directed and choreographed by Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek. Oh, and the unhinged neo-apocalyptic score, performed live by Indonesian duo, Senyawa (vocalist Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi on electrified “Bamboo Spear” and other instruments), was itself a gut-punching primal scream of, well, Mozartean proportions.
