Posted on Mon, Sep. 10, 2007
Fresh Juice. Each of the six offerings at Mascher Space Cooperative delivered flavorful moments. Those with staying power bit off more substantial material and chewed it well.
Christina Zani's abun/dance, a solo mix of text with a cyclical movement sequence, suggests a cross between Lucille Ball and Sartre. As Zani enumerates a catalog of what we might find on earth, "there's a large variety of snakes . . . dozens of styles of chamberpots . . . as many problems as anyone could want," she waves, smiles with effusive gregariousness, then slides into less certainty, more torment. Her ending is a gleeful knife-twister.
John Phillips' video of dancers vanishing on revolving planes within infinite architectural spaces is skillfully integrated with live performance in gasp by Emily Sweeney/Perpetual MvmtSndcq, unfortunately. The six dancers huddle and float; magenta pinprick lights descend; grainy close-ups catch their action.
In slip Meg Foley disrupts easy viewing with a large fabric cylinder in the middle of the dance space; we are invited to shift places. Four women dance individually or together in super slo-mo and at hyperspeed. Foley's movement - jackknifes, spooning, "walking" supine with thrusting hips - is robust and quirky.
Zornitsa Stoyanova's piece features a mock-lecturer with PowerPoint linking her actions to principles of physics and philosophy.
Makoto Hirono and David O'Donnell's riff on cultural do's and don't's has buzzers signaling the virtuous and not-so-virtuous as they engage with objects like cigarettes, money and corn syrup.
Megan Sinnwell gives a breezy account of a summer sojourn in Mexico in Erin Foreman-Murray's work, and the two deliver pleasing dance phrases. - Lisa Kraus
$10. 7 p.m. today11, 9 p.m. Friday. At Mascher Space, 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
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