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CITYPAPER REVIEW!
9/17/04
Multi-Family Garage Sale
The Bald Mermaids & Mark O'Maley
Dance • Crane Arts Center • $10 • 60 minutes
Inside the cavernous, beautiful Crane Arts Center, treat yourself to a miniature walking tour of 13 pieces by remarkable local dancers. Lighting — designed by Mark O’Maley, and used here as an element of performance rather than decoration — sheds all over the thousands-square-feet floor space, while solos and group pieces make their homes in different corners. You’ll find yourself scampering to keep up, but it’s all worth it as you reach each new destination, and your shadow’s cast all over the back wall. Highlights among a stellar program are Katie McNamara’s hyperactive jitter lit with hot pink (in the program’s eponymous piece); Bethany Formica’s aggressive performance in O’Maley’s “In The Rye”; and “Agitation”, a ballet populated by antsy suits including Janette Hough-Fertig, Rebecca Sloan and Adam Stone, sitting on chrome desk chairs, some of which are suspended from the ceiling. But make the schlep north of Girard for the whole experience of site-specific dance which finds more than one kind of site under one roof.
— Juliet Fletcher
FINAL SHOW TONIGHT @ 10pm!!!!!!!!!!!
Crane Arts CEnter
1400 N. American Street
(SEPTA #57 Bus from 3rd street stops right at the building!, and 3 block walk from GIRARD stop on teh Market-Frankford LIne)
9/17/04
Multi-Family Garage Sale
The Bald Mermaids & Mark O'Maley
Dance • Crane Arts Center • $10 • 60 minutes
Inside the cavernous, beautiful Crane Arts Center, treat yourself to a miniature walking tour of 13 pieces by remarkable local dancers. Lighting — designed by Mark O’Maley, and used here as an element of performance rather than decoration — sheds all over the thousands-square-feet floor space, while solos and group pieces make their homes in different corners. You’ll find yourself scampering to keep up, but it’s all worth it as you reach each new destination, and your shadow’s cast all over the back wall. Highlights among a stellar program are Katie McNamara’s hyperactive jitter lit with hot pink (in the program’s eponymous piece); Bethany Formica’s aggressive performance in O’Maley’s “In The Rye”; and “Agitation”, a ballet populated by antsy suits including Janette Hough-Fertig, Rebecca Sloan and Adam Stone, sitting on chrome desk chairs, some of which are suspended from the ceiling. But make the schlep north of Girard for the whole experience of site-specific dance which finds more than one kind of site under one roof.
— Juliet Fletcher
FINAL SHOW TONIGHT @ 10pm!!!!!!!!!!!
Crane Arts CEnter
1400 N. American Street
(SEPTA #57 Bus from 3rd street stops right at the building!, and 3 block walk from GIRARD stop on teh Market-Frankford LIne)
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