The Copier

From The New York Times:

"The Copier, Jill Johnson’s new performance/installation for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, has a fierce, almost forbidding surface. Jim French’s lighting casts a hard white sheen. David Poe’s richly layered original score integrates much mechanical noise. And Cedar Lake’s dancers, who go from zero to 60 with an ease you or I cannot fathom, are, well, themselves: fiercely physical, almost forbidding in Stephen Galloway’s subversively dressy rehearsal-gear costumes.

But Ms. Johnson’s 40-minute work has a gentle, humanistic core, one that teases out the lyrical qualities of dancers like the sublime Acacia Schachte ... After all, we tend to follow others’ leads, as “The Copier” addresses in strokes bold and minute. The dancers periodically sweep across the stage as one, just as the lights sweep overhead like the advancing bar of a copy machine. Both have a dehumanizing effect, but just as Mr. Poe injects pockets of hopeful longing into passages of insistent hubbub, Ms. Johnson finds ways to emphasize the lovely fragility of the individual. A hand curving out to touch another’s knee can mean so much: it can mean everything." By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, NEW YORK TIMES
Published: August 21, 2008

www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/dance/22 ceda.html

- The Copier is a dance installation choreographed by Jill Johnson with orgiinal music by David Poe. Performances August 20 - 23, 2008 at Cedar Lake Dance Company in New York City.

Watch the trailer here:

www.vimeo.com/1018431

Tickets here:

www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=FAL5

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