Hey Gang,
Here comes some of the Dance Discourse.
Rachel Howard
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/DD3S16K77V.DTL&type=performance
Allan Ulrich
http://www.voiceofdance.com/v1/features.cfm/1708/Spellbinder-Jess-Curtis-Gravity708.html
Allan somehow totally misses the fact that the piece is a co-creation by Maria and myself. Hard to trust his reading of the piece (even when it’s super positive) if he can’t read the program.
We’re having a great time doing the piece. Our crew are super and the audiences have been very supportive.
We really appreciate it if people would try to come this weekend. We anticipate having to turn people away next week and there were plenty of empty seats last night.
Jess
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Brave work, more than shin deep! It is not n easy piece to witness. Flesh on white walls and white floor brightly lit definitely had my attention. A beautiful study in bodies, their abilities and you 2 have A lot of abilities!!!
I love the ave maria/callas/dress virgin/whore/voyeur images/movements.
and yet i would have loved an encore with you both in sensual mode.
Carla
oops I meant skin deep.
carla
The Symmetry Project was a brave and wonderful modern dance performance. Very expressive and raw and told a strong story without any use of words and the power of movement, gesture, sound, and body can have on an audience…..very profound.
Counterpulse is clearly the most vital and important performance space in the Bay Area right now. No question doing the best work.
Now……if we could only do something about the audience…..sigh.
I came to CounterPulse to see Jess’ Symmetry and coincidentally did research on Contact classes just after seeing Symmetry. I was SO PLEASED to see that Maria (of Symmetry) was teaching the class. A perfect follow up to an amazing performance to be able to take class from one who was so inspiring a performer.
Thank you for this alternative venue space where I can see work that other more mainstream venues are not mature or evolved enough to present. I also stayed for the contact jam on Wednesday and was so impressed with the diversity and skill of the dancers. Wonderful experience all the way around. You will see me again next week!
Thank you,
Kyra
Okay, now about Symmetry Project…
(an email lead me to this blog that implied it was feedback for Counterpulse, sorry)
The Symmetry Project was a place in performance that spoke more purely to “movement art’ than anything I’ve seen since a piece choreographed by some guy named Rod… and perfomed by Alvin Ailey Co. back in 2002.
What Symmetry did was it approached the erotic then went so far beyond it to such a mutually intimate place that even though the audience still had their clothes on, I could mot help but feel closer to each of the performers. The “Questions” outlined in the lobby about this piece were really important ones any healthy person should be asking themselves. In our historically repressed culture and commercially projected shamefulness of our natural bodies, Symmetry allows a safe space to witness, study, even be entertained by being with one’s own and another’s body intimately, respectfully, exploratively, moving to and through the erotic in a way that we see glimpses of, (or know there’s been more to it maybe in the development of the work–that is left to our imagination) but we don’t need to see that. Symmetry takes us way beyond that. It takes us closer to nature; our human nature–whatwe have all become a little too disconnected from. I’d go as far as to say Symmetry is the kind of work that remindes us of our interconnectednes and, once again, our human nature through the lens of movement art, and that makes the world a better place.