Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Dance in Review

  • A Response to Tara Pilbrow’s “2+1”

    By Molly Rose-Williams When was the last time you straight-up, no holds barred, absolutely lost your mind at a dance show? I’m talking drool-worthy delight, gurgles of glee that escape unbidden, and a body that wiggles like joy incarnate. No? Me neither. But last Sunday at the matinee showing of Tara Pilbrow Dance’s 2 +…

  • CriticalMasses: Paufve Dance’s Event, 8x8x8 (Thursday, January 25th, 2018 at The Uptown in Oakland, CA)

    8x8x8 is one of Paufve Dance's hallmark events, now in its 11th iteration. Eight artists performing in a space approximately 8×8 in size…$8 for the event at 8pm at The Uptown in downtown Oakland, California. CriticalMasses is the latest layer of this Paufve Dance project – asking 8 people (participating artists and audience members alike)…

  • Reflection + Response: EAMES by Kristin Damrow & Company

    By Todd Courage EAMES, an evening-length dance work choreographed by Kristin Damrow, premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco on January 25th, 2018. Ms. Damrow’s current company of five dancers, represented as four women and one man, performed the piece with confidence and commitment. The title and subject of the event, EAMES, addressed the iconic…

  • Writing on Dance: A Response to Molly Heller’s “very vary” in Berkeley, California

    Photo credit: Duhaime Movement Project Writing on Dance: A Response to Molly Heller’s “very vary” in Berkeley, California December 2, 2017 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center By Michelle LaVigne Salt Lake City-based choreographer Molly Heller’s very vary felt much like a love letter or poem. Developed over a year-long collaborative process, this deeply thought and intimate…

  • Dance in Review: Quicksilver Dance’s “Children of Hobbes”

    Children of Hobbes: Disorder and Order Review by Todd Courage For her Quicksilver Dance Company, Mariah Steele choreographed Children of Hobbes, an evening-length work presented at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley on November 17–19, 2017. Children of Hobbes, loosely referring to English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’ social contract theory, was made up of three sections (Conform,…