I went to the split dance bill at On the Boards last night and I’ve blogged about it at On the Boards’s site. Serious dance folks should know that I don’t know a damned thing about dance, although I know a couple things about theater, and, as anyone who’s ever read my writing before knows, I know when I’m bored. I’m often bored at dance. But I wasn’t bored last night. I thought both acts went on a bit long, and — I’m going to get rocks thrown at me for saying this — I thought Monster Squad’s piece (they are from Portland) was more interesting than Zoe Scofield’s (she is from Seattle), but I endorse both. Still, I want to know (and I put this on On the Boards’s website): Modern choreographers, why this reliance on the epileptic freakout? Do you have dancers just do this whenever you can’t think of anything else to have them do? Is it the modern dance equivalent to treading water? Spasms, aerobic though they may be, are really not that interesting to watch.