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2024 Audience Reviews
Member Reviews
The following reviews were submitted by Fringe Member: Torre Edahl
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Company: Shua Group
Show: Something Together
Venue: The Southern Theater
Engaging, Physical, Ecstatic
From the opening low-stakes audience participation to the ending gestural sequence, I felt very invited to show up however I was and to engage with the audience members around me and the performers on stage. It felt at times like I was back in composition class, and I mean that in the best way. I emerged not entirely sure how the forty-five minutes (during some of which I was definitely grooving in my seat) had passed by so quickly, but grateful I had been part of it, and bursting with desire to move and create. Thank you thank you thank you.
Company: Vela Dance
Show: Amber & Gold
Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance
Classic Modern Dance
A very thoughtfully-choreographed series of classic modern dance pieces with enough fun and quirky choices to keep it fresh. The cast clearly had dancers of different experience levels, but they did well overall. I’m looking forward to seeing how this choreographer evolves her work.
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Company: Michael Rogers
Show: As Above, So Below
Venue: Barbara Barker Center for Dance
Extremely Well Written
This was a very well written show with some truly gorgeous choices, smart use of props and spacing, and a handful of a moments showcasing Michael Rogers’ physical abilities… but, and perhaps this is unfair of me given how challenging this must be to do night after night… for a show about confronting your own history and demons, and about learning to be honest, the show felt deeply performative and presentational to the point that it took me out multiple times. There was nothing WRONG, but I was craving a presentation that felt more lived-in and confessional, not like I was watching an hour-long monologue (which, admittedly, I was).