Let’s look for a moment at the ugly duckling of our evening at the City Center, which no one seemed to notice positively: Lucinda Childs Dance Company. (Check out also the photo in Nabila’s post)
What do you think the choreographer was trying to achieve in this piece?
Concerto (1993), photo by Peter Perazio
I am not entirely sure what the choreographer was trying to achieve in this piece, other than an impressive display of synchronization. This was the only positive takeaway I had from this performance, as the synchronization was very impressive, but the rest of the dance was rather repetitive. I certainly think that the choreographer was trying to achieve something greater than this, but it did not come across to me.
I thought the very first part, in which people moved in geometrically intriguing formation of making a movement based on groups to form an alternation between the cross and circle, reminded me of something mechanical, like the complicated labyrinth of cogwheels behind a gigantic clock tower.