So, as I ‘ve said before, Culturebot don’t do reviews. But I just got back from Noemie LaFrance’s NOIR and let me tell ya, it was really something else. The audience sits in cars in a parking garage as LaFrance’s ensemble of ten dancers enact a mysterious and elegant film noir.
Now, the performance I saw was abetted by nature: a sudden and near thunderclap, a flash of lightning followed by torrential rains that caused a small river of water to course down the parking garage added to the foreboding air.
But acts of nature notwithstanding….NOIR was one of the most cleverly conceived and well-realized performances I’ve seen in a while. For performance times, location and tickets go here.
Garage Noir
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I agree. NOIR was one of the finest evenings of performance I’ve seen since the early days of Alwin Nikolais. Good enough so that I actually went back a second time with my girlfreind, because I wanted her to see it, and also because the first time I ended uo in that beat-up old LeBaron and I wanted to see the performance from the best seat in the house – the beat up old Cadillac convertible. Interestingly enough, by the time I got back the second time, the car batteries had run down so far we couldn’t honk the horns and flash the lights after the performance.
The dancers were agile, evocative and skilled enough to not crown themselves on the low ceilings of the garage. They were also nice enough to be approachable after the performance, not always the case. As a sound/dance/setting, it was marvelous, and I would recommend to anyone that if this piece is ever performed near you, get your ass down there – but ask which cars they have first.Kudos to Noemie; she’s definitely got something here.
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