Arts & Entertainment, Dance

Getting In On the Ground Floor with zoe | juniper

Last Friday night, after a few Euros (shot of Fernet and a Radeberger) at St. John’s, I was lying flat on my back trying to keep the people I saw from spinning. I was having no luck, though, because I was watching a dance performance (of sorts: It was also an experiment, research, and rehearsal). Zoe | juniper’s “No one to witness and adjust, Study #4” took place in a small studio at Velocity Dance Center. Continue reading Getting In On the Ground Floor with zoe | juniper

Arts & Entertainment, Dance, Theatre

Zoe | Juniper Cracks Your Head Open, Non-Linearly

I’ve had the relative luxury of digesting the proceedings for a few days, and I can tell you that the complexity doesn’t go away; there’s the idea of examining the “liminal space between action-reaction, cause-effect, and before-after,” and talk of “framing,” but that doesn’t prepare you for your response to the dancer with a red string in her teeth, the extraordinary score from Greg Haines (and sound design by Matt Starritt), or the blasts of light that reset scenes like a circuit breaker. Continue reading Zoe | Juniper Cracks Your Head Open, Non-Linearly