Alexandra Pinel and Candice Thompson sat down together at the Kitchen to take in Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance. CT: I left Jen Rosenblit’s A Natural Dance wondering whether this episodic performance piece added up to a greater whole. I didn’t necessarily need it to add up to a cohesive message but was really hoping that what seemed like random and shifting juxtapositions of dancers, moves, costumes, props, text, sound, and lights would inspire some sort of feeling or mood in me. AP: I saw the work as two separate pieces, before and after Effie Bowen came on stage. In the first segment previous to her entrance, Jen Rosenblit, Addys Gonzalez and Justin Cabrillos seemed to have established a relationship and spacial motifs that came back. There seemed to often be a solo overlapping a duet that reinforces the solo itself type of scenario. After Bowen entered the space, time accelerated and moments unrelated to one another accumulated. Going back to the first section, Rosenblit, Gonzalez, and Cabrillos were extremely visually stimulating in the white box-like set. Each performer stood out in his or her unique body and movement style, yet their differences blended harmoniously. I was struck by the performance quality of Cabrillos […]
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