WORKING shared a weekend at the Joyce Theater alongside the Sean Curran Dance Company this January 30th-February 3rd. The program series, led by Ken Maldonado of the Gotham Arts Exchange, consisted of eight female choreographers in New York City: Monica Bill Barnes, Sidra Bell, Janis Brenner, Camille A. Brown, Jane Comfort, Carolyn Dorfman, Loni Landon, and Kate Weare.
Most of the program shared the common thread of spatial caging by various set pieces or pools of light which limited the space danced on stage. The weighted and restricted dancing was a reflection on the little room female choreographers possess in our progressive society.A spirit of satire emerged as Monica Bill Barnes opened the performance with Luster, a female duet danced to Tina Turner's "Proud Mary." The dance began with a stop motion film of the two dancers laboriously walking their flashy set piece from a storage location on the Hudson River to The Joyce Theater. The film projection then became reality, revealing both the on and off stage work involved in a dance production.Photo Credit: BWW-Staff
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