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This special pre-screening happened two weeks ago at the Southern Theater, so I’m slow and I’m regretful about being slow. But there were pressing matters. Life is what happens while you had other plans. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 9/25/09 • How does a nominee feel? Continue Reading
by John Munger | 9/25/09 • It takes a village to make…a dance community. And it takes a dance community (among other things) to make a village worth living in. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/10/09 • So after the parade has ended we all collect our wits, heave a sigh, and feel post-partum depression. Or relief. Or something. I was busy this year. I had a successful but not award-winning show (“My Body Made Me Do This” at the Ritz). Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/7/09 • Three intelligent and energetic young women have worked together for a long time. They have a chemistry, they have a shared sense of ensemble, and they all work from the same artistic page. These are no small accomplishments. They are particularly valuable when the performance process is “improvisation.”
This show is not as successful as it should be. It has merit and it’s interesting, but somewhere the air drained out of the tires. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/6/09 • When I see not one dancer but an entire cast execute (get ready for some jargon) double petite rond de jombe en l’air while leaving the ground in a temps levee I know that I am in the presence of serious performers. This performance is clean, technically competent, and committed. Those are no small things. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/6/09 • For nine years of my life I lived in Colorado and got to know some aspects of American Western culture. This show touches on some of these aspects.
The show is about so many things all at once, and it actually weaves them together very powerfully. It is about male-female relationships. It is about people who relate to horses for any of several reasons. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/5/09 • This is a very engaging show. If you’ve not seen much dance, and feel like a newbie, you’ll get a kick out of this one. If you’re a full scale professional dancer or choreographer you’ll enjoy the too-true satirical take on rehearsal processes and related matters. The next word that comes to my mind after “engaging” is “clever.”
Basically there are four pieces. The first and last are pure movement and the middle two involve text delivered live by the dancers. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/5/09 • This is the third year in a row that Monica Rodero and Danial Schuchart of Milwaukee have appeared on the Minnesota Fringe Festival. God bless the lottery. We here in the Twin Cities are blessed with their gentle and inviting artistry.
Both are members of Wild Space Dance Company in Milwaukee, sort of the Zenon of that city in the sense that it is a major company with a fair-sized budget and a presence well beyond its own civic borders. Continue Reading
by John Munger | 8/5/09 • About 35 or 40 of us, including several late arrivals, settled into Mixed Blood Theater and were greeted by Artistic Director Jennifer Smith. She welcomed us and explained that the first piece was an improvisation involving herself and fellow-dancer Cassidy Bires. Continue Reading