Word: soll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Jowitt and Sonntag, I shouldn't write that of the six Boston choreographers collaborating as Dance Collective, Beth Soll seems to have the most sensitivity for making dances, but rather I should only describe her work: "Safari," a trio for one woman and a couple, concerns memory, history, travel. Three journeyers slowly traverse the stage, their gestures more theatrical than dance-like. What begins as logic ends as absurdity; like scouts, the trio raise their hands to their brows, then transform the gesture into an odd wiggly wave...
...Soll juxtaposes incongruous images, a waltz and an hours-long fall or love-making and a corpse-like pose. She warps time and space, creates endless moments and an unidentifiable yet distinct place--I felt as if I must have seen the dance sometime before. This ability to shade time and space with felt qualities is what's meant by an intuition for choreography...
...Soll's second work, "Lunch Break," also uses the principle of juxtaposition. Images jumble together at such a fast pace that the eight performers are pushed almost to the point of becoming characters--yet the tempo is so quick that they never quite have time to become anyone. On one level the work parodies dance: Soll dressed in baggy pants and a sweatshirt punches her way through arabesques and pirouettes; one group (construction workers?) breathlessly executes Graham floor exercises; another trio plods in a circle as in many a minimalist dance. Even sections not broadly satiric take on a quality...
...Summer School Dance Center finishes up its first series of performances this weekend at Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. The Center is presenting new works by Reuben James Edinger, Mel Wong and Beth Soll. Tickets cost $3 if you get them in advance, $3.50 at the door...
...Summer School Dance Center gives its first performance of the year Thursday night in Agassiz Theater. The concert, which runs through the weekend, features new works by Reuben James Edinger, Beth Soll and Mel Wong. Advance tickets cost $3, tickets at the door go for $3.50. Shows start...