Jessica Wright and Christine Benson. Photo by Jay Schroeder.
A showing Friday and Saturday night by busy, young dancer/choreographers, A Chosen Pick of the Decided Spot was the kind of evening I can really get into: The pieces were short, ideas unique and varied and, most endearingly, nothing was forced upon the audience as though it was self-evidently Important. That isn’t to say that it wasn’t, but in spite of the quality it made no demands, just asked simply to be witnessed.
Jessica Wright organized and presumably curated the show and created two of its seven acts. The first, “Characterized by indecision,” seemed more or less unchanged from its appearance on a Field Trips program in May; I liked it just as much now as I did then and appreciated the chance to see it a second time. The other, “The Arrangement of Complements,” was a confident step forward in the same direction. Christine Benson, Anna Goldman and Jessie Young, credited with Wright for the choreography, gave a clean performance that made each burst of dueling rhythms, freeze-tag tableaux, miniature canon and coagulation of unison plainly visible in concept. Idiosyncratic gestures and unexpected musical choices (E*vax, The Books, µ-Ziq and Takagi Masakatsu) are all well and good, but telegraphing a sense of style — the costumes were lovely all evening — isn’t enough. Wright and her dancers are disciplined in a way that many of their generation aren’t. Everything is diligently worked out by hand with no corners cut — the hip beats and threads merely support intelligent dancemaking there in full. Read More…
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