{"id":9628,"date":"2014-01-20T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T01:44:34","slug":"wayne-mcgregor-random-dance-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wayne-mcgregor-random-dance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne McGregor\/ Random Dance — Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne McGregor\/ Random Dance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance Performance<\/p>\n

Lam Research Center at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco<\/p>\n

January 19, 2014<\/p>\n

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This is an abstract study in movement and agility.\u00a0 It starts out with a male\/female couple in a rather contentious vignette against a beautiful vocal sound track.\u00a0 The opening segment was intriguing, however, the rest of the performance seemed to be a repudiation of this promising outset.\u00a0 It was as if this opening represented something from the past that had given way to something much harsher, with less human connection and less emotional content.\u00a0 Perhaps it is an oblique comment on modern life.\u00a0 In any case the subsequent segments were set against\u00a0 clashing, percussive electronic soundtracks that incorporated sounds like the din of a factory, passing trains, jet airplanes on an airport runway, cars with stereos thumping full blast.\u00a0 Intrusive, noisy, discordant sounds.\u00a0 Blaring strobe lights add to this grating atmosphere of unpleasantness in an aggressive frontal assault on the audience.\u00a0 The dance that was set in front of all this was active, if not frenetic.\u00a0 Movements are fluid, but staccato, disjointed, contorted and sometimes grotesque.\u00a0 There is interaction between the dancers, but emotional connection seems shallow.\u00a0 Bodies are emphasized by the almost nude costuming, but there is little eroticism.\u00a0 The eroticism is fleeting and subdued.\u00a0 There is a feeling of detachment and narcissism throughout, like the activity on the streets of a large city where people are busily and anxiously active, but completely self absorbed and indifferent to others with whom they might be sharing the street and even casually interacting.\u00a0 This performance seemed determined to minimize emotional interaction.\u00a0 The dancers did an admirable job with a physically demanding program.\u00a0 It lasted one hour without an intermission — which I appreciated.\u00a0 The length was just about right, because this strident, relentless cacophony gets to be taxing.\u00a0 It was not exactly to my taste, but it did have interest.<\/p>\n

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