Sadiq Ali Company: Tell Me
About HIV/AIDS, Tell Me certainly leaves its mark. For all its difficult subject matter, it’s also a work that’s warm and full of hope and optimism.
The Place
Resolution 26: Hannah Todosijczuk, SynEcho, Kill Your Darlings
The dancers are committed and the themes are ambitious. What I miss is not effort, but clarity.
Resolution 26: Fin de Fiesta, JJ James, Lauren Scott
Three works that approach dance from very different directions. Movement functioned as performance, but also a way of listening, gathering and questioning
Resolution 26: ZhouXin Theater, Babyteeth, DREAM
All three pieces show performers with ability and intent, but none of them offers a thread I can follow.
Resolution 26: Mia Segal, Greta Gauhe & Deborah Dimeglio, Hui-Hsin Lu
From theatrical storytelling, to an intimate duet built around physical touch, to an abstract collaboration between movement and installation
Resolution 26: Megan Westpfel Co, Wild Guess and Ming-Chin Hsieh
Some works appear fully formed, while others feel provisional, still in dialogue with larger ideas yet to come… energy emerges as a shared currency
Resolution 26: Isadora D’Héloïsa, Qi Song, Seirian Griffiths
In Interchange, Seirian Griffiths’ choreography of dance, gymnastics and more is totally absorbing… grace, fluidity and tremendous technical skill
Resolution 26: Maya Inniss, Aurora Casatori, Ty Burrows
Across the evening, each work investigates the combination of different art forms as a means of shaping a personal artistic language.
Resolution 26: Sana El-Wakili, Esther Cheong, Paxton Ricketts
Sound repeatedly insists on being more than accompaniment. It presses into the choreography, shaping timing, attention and pressure on the body
The Magic Flute by Luca Silvestrini’s Protein
There is a good amount of dancing, which is pretty, well-executed and, very importantly, appeals to its audience.
ACE Dance and Music: TWAWSI – The World as We See It
The ACE dancers are outstanding in both works. Their finesse, precision, interpretation, technique, and sheer danceability, are amongst the best…