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...which featured a rather obvious criticism of familial roles and an ode to the multi-tasking role of the mother. From start to finish, the dance was distinctive, even beginning in silence while two dancers, dressed like toddler twins in bright pastel floral smocks, encircled the stage in a heavy-footed soldier-step, looking like mirror images of each other. After outlasting a program of seven relatively demure acts with soberly colored costumes, the colorful beginning of “Family Games” jolted audiences to sit up in their seats...
...intriguing beginning led to a confusing set of antics that, if nothing else, certainly kept audiences curious. In one scene, woman presumably playing the children’s mother came to center stage in floral prints, only to be knocked down by her tennis-playing husband. Perhaps in a commentary on the complex family and career burdens on women, tennis balls flew across the stage as the exasperated mother futilely tried to control her children amid the chaos, eventually succumbing to being undressed by her children. In fact, by the end of the composition, all 4 dancers had managed...
Spoken towards the end of Graffiti, the performance at the Loeb Experimental Theater this weekend, these words could have been the (ideological) motivation for the show’s production. The heels of tap dancers beating on the stage, the percussionists banging pots and pans, the deejay scratching his records, the projection of spoken word performers’ voices, and the whisper of a graffiti spray can, combine to create an almost deafening roar...
...graffiti of the title makes intermittent appearances on the black wall at the back of the stage; as different artists leave their mark, the wall accumulates different colors and shapes. While one poet delivers a spoken word performance piece about liberty and equality in the United States, another performer slowly paints the Statue of Liberty with a green spray can. It is fascinating to watch her drawing develop from an oblong triangle to a realistic version of the monument, mixing visual art with performing in an offbeat way. Yet the show’s graffiti element was not exploited...
...their introduction climaxes, a series of tap dance pieces takes over the central stage. Though the costume style and music range from hip-hop to be-bop, the dancers assume a common attitude in all the pieces. With their hiips thrown forward, shoulders back, they keep up an air of citified cool as they move about the stage. Like mythical hipsters, they mark out their territory, while their body language and facial expression flippantly warn not to mess...