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Thin AirOctober 9-13, 2007Dance Theatre Workshop 219 W 19th Street 212-691-6500 dancetheaterworkshop.org Donna Uchizono’s Latest Experimental Piece Incorporates Quantum Physics and Buddhism into Multimedia Evening  Donna Uchizono’s "Thin Air" takes form at Dance Theater Workshop Concentrating primarily on their feet, they walk, twist, turn, hop, and paint to a wonderful guitar-based score by electronic-music master Fred Frith. "Thin Air" explores the three-dancer dynamic via shifting alliances of two and one, referring to classical ballet not only in foot positions but also in pas-de-deux-like passages and a male solo. They perform in unison only twice, including a sexy menage a trois-like grouping. They interact with projected video (by Michael Casselli), blurring the lines between perception and (virtual) reality, time and space, particularly when Harakas has the image of another dancer projected directly onto her body while back on the ladder, mimicking the video dancer’s moves. (Interestingly, the piece’s working title was “As eye see it.”) Though too abstract and disjointed at times, "Thin Air", which Uchizono based on quantum physics and the Buddhist theory of emptiness, is an exciting night of experimental dance theater. |
