Author: Juliana DeVaan
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Reckoning without Redress, jill sigman/thinkdance, Re-Seeding (Encounter #4: The Seamstress) in Pioneers Go East Collective’s Out-FRONT Fest
In a moment characterized by decay, destruction, and despair, it feels peculiar to find oneself in a place characterized by warmth, communion, and creativity. Out-FRONT! Fest., a week-long program of queer and feminist dance and performance produced by Pioneers Go East Collective, offers an approach to thinking through and being in the present that exists…
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How to Dance out of the Past and into the Present in Bill T. Jones Still/Here.
Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it appears as a product of its present, rather than the moment it was first choreographed. Bill T. Jones’s 1994 multi-media dance piece Still/Here,…
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Toying with Irony in Volta Collective’s SALT
In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides’s Medea. But, instead of featuring a vengeful enchantress and her Argonaut husband, SALT depicts two cynical artists exploiting each other to fulfill both emotional and financial desires. Jason (George Olesky) is…