Interaction between Dancers
Of the four performances in the Fall for Dance presentation, the one in which dancer interaction was most clear was the second, “Mo(or)town.” The performance was based primarily on Othello, a play focusing around betrayal and a white handkerchief which eventually tears a group of friends apart. The performance can be divided into two categories – moments in which the entire cast is onstage, and moments in which just two characters are interacting.
In the full group scenes, the entire group moves as one, having very unified movements involving a great deal of physical contact and unity with one another. They are a close group who are comfortable with one another, and attempt to maintain this facade as the dance continues.
In the separate scenes, however, every motion is an attempt by one dancer to steal away the white hankerchief from the other. Each graceful movement is coupled with a desperate reach for the object of each character’s desire, and each dance becomes an elaborate duel between the two performers, doing all in their power to claim the important object.
