No, they DO, that's just it. OHHHH, I just worry and worry about modern dance. There was a time, when I was about half the weight I am now, when I went to classes twice a week, at NIGHT no less, after a full day at whatever I was doing then, and I was skinny and energetic and it was all about Martha Graham and Bill Evans (I can still bounce and swoop, yes I can).
I just didn't get it. Maybe I'm too lazy, maybe I want the symbols to just leap up and show themselves to me. But it took most of the 30 minutes for me to figure out what was what. If it hadn't been for the voiced over narrative about the Rubber Room, would I have paid MORE attention? Would I have understood it at ALL? Okay the hands in this position when they are in that formation meant THIS. etc.
The concept, the reality of the Rubber Room seems pretty amazing and interesting and how in the WORLD does this stuff happen on the taxpayer dollar? Does it work as a 30 minute modern dance commentary? My gut says uhm, uhm, uhm....???? And my mind (so constantly full of self-doubt) goes, what's WRONG with me? Why didn't I think this was the most brilliantly artistic piece of performing art this year?
I have this particular thing about modern dance, perhaps because it's something I've had a special attachment to for something like 30 years. And that's because I think the very best modern dancers are very very theatrical. And these ladies, despite their physical prowess, only rarely seemed to 'connect' to the material. To me, and please, shoot me if I'm a bad person here, seemed to be good dancers with no acting training. And if you're going to do a piece of dance THEATRE, then it has to have THEATRE. Was it them or the direction or me or what? I don't know.
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