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Danspace Project Board member Douglas Dunn offers his impressions on:
Jane Comfort and Company's Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Sequence of vignettes; flows bumpily; brazen in its proscription of development; entire floor space engaged, lighting and placement of dancers balanced, neither leading other; disparate, familiar movement styles, shifting moment to moment, not worked for inventiveness; despite leg-training, upper body more articulated than lower, running and walking frequent for traveling; lots of falling, mostly un-stylized (rough, "natural" descents); one performer stands way out, so at home in the body, all cells of it showing enjoying, a bit bursting at times, the church, the evening, this dancer's very own dominion; piece's tone is light; frequent mime-like sequences play for humor, about half of the full house on the altar do laugh; all 48 minutes = homo ludens, though occasional solos approach atmosphere of just dancing for us, bend toward more hallowed theatrical mood, rather than continue to insist we be humored; sinuous, highly refined in/out musical presence of Joan La Barbara, plus occasional lyrical and feisty vocal riffs by dancers; conventional forms of choreographic unity = moments of unison, a repeat of hand-washing motif, and suggestion of beginning at end; otherwise, indeed fleeting, frequent costume changes unsticking any character fixes we might have on individuals; the personas overall those of fickle youngsters having a good time, no worry of what follows what, their zest sometimes constrained by, sometimes furthered by, what they've committed themselves physically to accomplish.
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