by Roxana Gramada | Jan 23, 2018 | Contemporary Dance, Review
The title is, actually, very accurate. The show is about the act of twisting and turning. As with all metaphors, it’s all in the how. It opens to grand Hollywood airs, the ‘30s type you expect grand cabaret ballet corps to flood the stage on, plumed, long legged and...
by Roxana Gramada | Jan 16, 2018 | Contemporary Dance, Review
I just stepped onto the set of George Michael’s Freedom, Cindy Crawford at my feet, arms over chest in pop icon bathtub pose. Meters away, Linda Evangelista stretches against the wall, looking to the side, just like in Michael’s music video. Or Madonna’s. I can’t...
by Roxana Gramada | Jan 9, 2018 | Contemporary Dance, Review
Walking into the set of We are lichens is like an immersion into a languid version of Children of men. Still dark and unkempt to dirtiness, but without the structure and the drama. Precisely what the title advertises. Although, there is another layer built into it....
by Roxana Gramada | Nov 26, 2017 | Contemporary Dance, Review
She stands petite, charcoal black clad, almost undefined against the pitch black curtains, face to face with an invested object of desire: a speaker. And then dialogue, more like the passion, ensues. She approaches inquiringly, looks into the speaker’s clarion,...
by Roxana Gramada | Nov 6, 2017 | Contemporary Dance, Review
Andreea Novac is not your ordinary dancer. She welcomes you to her show, invites you to make yourself at home then says she’ll be right back. And as the mostly female audience oozes to Beatles’ “Oh! Darling” (please believe me), she goes behind the curtain to exchange...
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