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The Performant: More than words

04.26.13 - 8:04 am | Nicole Gluckstern |
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From Sheetal Ghandi's "Bahu-Beti-Biwi." Photo by Nicole Gluckstern
From Sheetal Ghandi's "Bahu-Beti-Biwi." Photo by Nicole Gluckstern
From Sheetal Ghandi's "Bahu-Beti-Biwi." Photo by Nicole Gluckstern
From Ragged Wing's "Time Sensitive." Photo by Carter Brooks
Addie Ulrey and Keith Davis in Ragged Wing's "Time Sensitive." Photo by Carter Brooks

Sheetal Gandhi and Ragged Wing Ensemble stretch their forms

If an image is worth a thousand words, how much dialogue does the art of dance encompass, when every flick of the wrist can denote whole unspoken volumes? As dance in the Bay Area moves ever further into hybrid territories, where language and limbs combine to stretch the parameters of storytelling, patrons of more traditional theatrical fare may find familiarity in the broadened scope of this increasingly amalgamated artform.

Sheetal Gandhi’s "Bahu-Beti-Biwi" at ODC is a great example of this heterogeneity, bringing to life a series of characters who speak as much in gesture as with words on an almost ascetically bare stage.

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The Performant: Poetry in motion

12.13.12 - 10:42 am | Nicole Gluckstern |
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From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Performers Under Stress "You Need to Read Poetry"
From Ragged Wing Ensemble's "Fierce Plays"
From Ragged Wing Ensemble's "Fierce Plays"
From Ragged Wing Ensemble's "Fierce Plays"
From Ragged Wing Ensemble's "Fierce Plays"

"You Need to Read Poetry" and "Ragged Wing" take flight

Against the back curtain of the stage, empty save a couple of small platforms, a mysterious tree, represented by a rainbow of colored scarves, stretched its silken boughs. Cut to the “great before,” when humans were still a figment of the future, and Mol’-luk (Liz Wand), a brooding, powerful condor, sat perched on a rock, little suspecting that the “mountain” is pregnant with his peregrine falcon son, Wek Wek (Juliana Lustenader), whose dramatic birth by fire was further facilitated by a chorus of rattlesnakes (select members of the oddience armed with noisemakers).

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