Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Theater Coming Soon: Alaska
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Lane Czaplinski described choreographer Diana Szeinblum's work as "Crystal Pite meets Constanza Macras on Percocet." But I think he was just trying to push my buttons—he knows how much I adore the way Pite and Macras weld together high technique, pathos, sex, and fun. Both choreographers are aware of their highbrow tradition but aren't afraid to smash a pie into its face. They've got a Duchamp attitude towards dance, but they employ all the tools and energy of the 21st century.
From this video clip, it looks like Szeinblum is riding the same roller-coaster Pite and Macras are on.
(Check out the pants-off dance-off at 0:55.)
From this week's theater calendar:
A work for four dancers and two musicians by Argentina-born (and Pina Buasch-trained) Diana Szeinblum, Alaska is both colorful and cold, a kind of tropical postmodernism. Dancers stomp, curl, bend, and swing like distraught pendulums—and sometimes tear each others' clothes off—to a live score of piano, violin, and laptop. (Brendan Kiley)
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