Chair, Department of Dance, SUNY/Brockport

“It seems to me that the most important thing about the work was not so much what I actually saw on stage but what it made me envision and access in my mind and in my heart. While the positive space occupied by the moving bodies of the dancers showed spatial clarity and choreographic skill, it was the "unseen" , the negative space, that somehow allowed me to connect to a deeper place inside of me, that place indeed, that is the entrance way to viewing and experiencing life with an expanded awareness. This is an experience both eerie and deeply nourishing because it reminds us of the element of death in our lives but takes the fear out of the darkness by embracing the non-physical realm.”

 

“And the amazing ‘Geomantics.’  (As I said, "riveting".)  The afterimage of the piece … is the dancer as an arrow to the ground.  An arrow *in* the ground, at an angle, still vibrating. The divination that rises is a primal organic shock made palpable and audible in the intake of breath. It lifts his body momentarily, arhythmically, persistently, as if trying to "take" - take hold, inspire, move him, move in him. The dancer is carried, is moved by other forces, not personal will. The meaning comes in at a lower part of the brain, though the dance is beautiful intellectually, emotionally, and physically. The only music that I could imagine enhancing the piece would be live drumming. But the piece was made more powerful by not having additional sound.   Truly this dance makes its own music - you know, somewhere in the dark part of the mind, stirring somewhere near the body's center.”

                    

                                                 Director: Physikos Movement Studio, Rochester, NY