March 5, 2007

Dance Performances in DC

Saturday night at Dance Place, I saw "Destiny" an enjoyable performance by Coyaba Dance Theater, a local dance company that presents traditional and contemporary West African dance and music. "Destiny" explores the personal journey of company director Sylvia Soumah.

And last weekend I saw "Temporal Interference" from Arlington, Virginia-based modern dance company Jane Franklin. The performance was in downtown DC at the Warehouse Theater.

You can read a write-up about "Temporal Interference" on Anais Janacek's new dance blog. View a picture gallery of this performance/installation on the website of new media artist Bryan Leister. And read a short write-up in the Washington Post.

As you'll see from the write-ups and pictures, "Temporal Interference" features three dancers who interact with a sound-generating theremin device at the center of the performance. I'll write more about this work soon - I'll probably do an audio interview with Jane Franklin and Bryan Leister this week.

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