Out of Harm's Way

This is the second piece in the repertory dance performance at the Project Arts Center. Everyone raves about the choreographer of this one (as opposed to the other choreographer who was a guest choreographer). It was great! The space was a partial room completely covered in this damask rose pattern. The walls, the door, the armoire, the window sills, the window shades, the lamp shades, the couch. There were a couple hidden doors in the walls. A guy entered from over the top of the flats. There was a mime in a suit with large spots, some of which fell off during the performance. (That dancer reminded me of Cason.) It was all the same dancers from the other piece, but this choreography really showed off what they could do.

There was this point in which a woman was kinda sleep walking on chairs that three of the men kept rearranging as she stepped and then they put her on the wall and she walked perpendicularly along the wall while two men supported her over their heads. She walked across two of the walls which meant turning a corner. And then she sat on the top of the armoire for the next five or ten minutes.

Lots of hetero sexuality in this piece, like the other one.

There were multi-lingual parts (one dancer is Spanish, one is Italian, one is German, and I think the rest are Irish). There were lots of amazing choreographed fights that weren't about making contact, but they clearly were moving in response to each other.

I'm very glad I saw this one after the other one because I would've been devastated if I had seen them in the other order.