Anne Hege performs live original score for Sensate, an open installation dance performance at Brooklyn Lyceum

Posted: November 19th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized |

 

Carrie Ahern Open Installation Dance Performance: Sensate. November 18 - 22.

Last night I walked into Sensate mid-way through the second of three cycles and was immediately entranced and enveloped by its world, an other world both deep in the past and far into the future - the vocals and electronics recalled Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna, the haunting soundtrack for the monolith’s discovery on the moon in 2001 while the dancers quivered and shook, primordial ooze - all physical sensation and biology.  An impressive initial reaction, for sure, but what kept me involved for the next hour and a half, and what I believe makes the piece a complete success and so unique that anyone with an interest in dance or performance must come and experience it, is the perfect, full, and flowing use of the space.  The Brooklyn Lyceum has a huge main theater, with a back balcony, and a smaller performance space above, separated by windows.  Sensate uses both spaces simultaneously, with both the performers (five dancers and the vocalist) and the audience moving freely between the two - creating new, ever changing formations.  Two different soundtracks bleed into each other, and both dance areas can be viewed from either space, though I constantly aware that something else was going on elsewhere and therefore actively explored the space and its infinite perspectives.  The piece is on hour in duration, but is run through three times with out stopping each night and the audience is encouraged to come and go, or stay, for as long as they choose.  

Open Installation Dance Performance. November 18-21: Wed-Sat enter anytime between 7:30-10:30pm Sunday Nov 22 enter anytime from 3-6pm $20 / $15 with student or performing arts ID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.brooklynlyceum.com

 

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