I found the show sadly lacking without deeAnn Nelson (Who broke her back performing in the show last Spring - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/arts/dance/02stre.html ) and Terry Dean Bartlett (The former Associate Artistic Director, fired for having a benefit for her? who was all but the star of the Company - http://www.danceinsider.com/chevalier/c070507.html )

I feel the same about the show, as the Times Review: "But Slam Show X, a reworking of last year’s “Streb vs. Gravity,” evokes the thrills and fun of a circus rather than serious thoughts about her intentions. That’s a good thing if you are a child or in thrill-seeking search of some gasp-and-wince entertainment. It’s not so good if you hope Ms. Streb is still pursuing her quest for new perspectives on dance or movement...her company’s seven brilliant athletes aren’t ballet dancers or gymnasts, and when Ms. Streb has them take on those mannerisms, they don’t look as good as professionals in those fields...plenty of thrills — just not those of suddenly perceiving space and time anew."

I've seen many of these SLAM shows and frankly they're getting a little tired. I go hoping to see new work and glimpses of her past brilliance, but it's always the same old repertory, the place overrun by screaming children, bad dance-recital performances by the school's students stuck in the middle, as a cheap way to hopefully build attendance, and increasingly more clowning and mugging to the audience, for applause, by the performers, to make up for the increasingly lacking artistic credibility of the work.

Not to mention, it's $20 to sit in a barely heated warehouse on the outer edge of Williamsburg, on a cold metal folding chair, with a view of the person in front of you's head and little else.