Grupo Corpo

Michelle Mullin
Blog Post #2
Dance Performance Review
 
                On the evening of April 2, I found myself sitting in the Meany Theater balcony, anticipating a performance by Grupo Corpo. I opened my program, hoping to acquire some sort of background before the performance began. I started reading about Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet and found [...]

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Grupo Corpo

Is an electrifying Brazilian dance company that had the ability to captivate you with their stunningly sexy physicality, dynamic and rich visual beauty.
 Grupo Corpo creates a seamless blend of ballet and modern dance in this 21st-century dance piece. The choreography of Rodrigo Pederneiras was fun and easy on the eyes. Lines of rubber like [...]

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Unitards Galore

Grupo Corpo. Man oh man! I haven’t seen so much athleticism in dance since I saw Pilobilous in 2007. For the entire two hours, I was largely consumed with the physicality of the performers, and had a hard time absorbing the choreography and the big picture. Really, goodness gracious, these dancers were incredible and partially [...]

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A shot of crazyness in Breu

Breu is a multidimensional, eccentric array of music, movement, and personality. The stage is transformed into a confined space made up of reflective black tile, replacing the flooring, upstage curtain, and wings. Brittle, desolate, and unforgiving is the space the dancers inhabit. The music and lighting are just as sorrowful and bleak. Low sustained tonal [...]

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Tanja Leidtke’s Construct

The lights are still up in the house as the three dancers of Tanja Liedtke’s Construct walk onto the stage. The two women become solid boards of wood, the man trying to keep them upright as they fall. The women are holding their position as they fall to the ground and are picked up again. [...]

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Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a modern musical adapted from the 1895 novel The Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind. It is currently playing on Broadway, and on an international tour. For the purpose of this review, I will be focusing on the choreography by Bill T. Jones
With music by Duncan Sheik (Tony Award), book and lyrics [...]

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Doug Varone’s many mentors

Alex, Julia, and I saw Lar Lubovitch’s dance company back in February (yes, February) at McCaw Hall.  I was pretty excited to see the show because Lar Lubovitch is one of Doug Varone’s many mentors.  If you don’t know who Doug Varone is, shame on you.  Google him, go to his website, watch the videos [...]

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Bare Soundz- Music Blog

As a dancer I consider someone who tap dances more of a musician than a dancer. I attended a sold out performance of Savion Glover’s Bare Soundz. In this performance Savion Glover concentrated more on making sounds coming from his feet than dancing around. Also performing with Glover were Marshall Davis Jr and [...]

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Chop Shop

I attended Chop Shop Bodies of Work. This concert had many different types of dance. Ranging in Ballet to Modern to solo and group pieces. Overall there were eight dances, unique in there choreography.
One of my favorite pieces was Wade Madsen’s solo “Leaving” music by Bill Evans. His movement in his solo was subtle and [...]

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Kate Wallich’s dance blog.

On Brazil’s Groupo Corpo, Choreography by Rodrigo Pederneiras.
The opener to the evening was Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet to music by Phillip Glass/Uakti.  The first sound you hear is the organ as the dancers shuffle themselves in pairs in a slow progression across the stage.  The dancers are clad in striped unitards in shades of yellows, [...]

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