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Your Mother Dances How Embarrassing. Your Mother Dances.
Stripped Roundly... Three new works include: “The Grey Side” and “Impulsive Minors” by Johnson and “Deflating Debussy” by Vanier. Through elements of song, Japanese death haikus, and the company’s intricate but tender partnering, in “The Grey Side,” Johnson considers death’s emotional echoes as well as the human necessities of comfort, support (literal and otherwise), and healing community. “Deflating Debussy” finds dancers Sarah Bromann, Thom Dancy (courtesy of Milwaukee Ballet II), and YMD veteran Maryhelen Wesner fulfilling Vanier’s quest to deconstruct ballet’s traditional use of epaulement--the refined use of the head, arms, and shoulders--in a driving/diving contest of endurance to Claire de Lune and the techno beyond. “Impulsive Minors” rounds out the program. Beth Engel, Jaimi Patterson, Steven Moses, Megan Zintek, Andrew Zanoni and Johnson explore the many ways her choreographic impulse studies evolve in complexity and musicality to seven of Chopin’s minor key nocturnes. Does the quixotic fervor of the music juxtaposed with mercurial shifts of weight and direction look like a trip though the adolescent mind? You decide. Place: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mitchell Hall, Room 254.
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