West Wave Dance Festival showcases promising works
West Wave Dance Festival showcases promising works
Lazarus programmed astutely, booking the best talent she could find, supplementing the fare with intriguing guest choreographers.
The silver anniversary edition of the festival has moved to the fall, when there is more competition for the dance dollar.
The week will witness 25 premieres from 25 choreographers, chosen by the public and birthed at Joe Landini’s Safehouse for the Performing Arts.
Compact and muscular, she went to work on Yannis Adoniou’s “Fail Safe (Iteration 2)” and transformed the piece into a heroic movement monologue.
The dog act of the evening was contributed by Oscar Tidd/Political Animal Group, the group being a pup running around the dance floor.
[...] Tidd performed a rapid-fire, almost robotic solo, legs flying like lizard tongues.
In the finale, Tidd slipped the dog under his shirt and rolled around the floor to the accompaniment of “Earth Angel.”
[...] there was Nell Suttles’ “Dream State,” a power-shifting duet for the choreographer and Helen Wickes, set to the songs of Sigur Rós; it’s one of those dances you have seen many times before under different names.