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  • Audience Response to Tere O'Connor Work In Progress by Vivian Welton
    7/21/11

    Audience Response to Tere O'Connor Work In Progress by Vivian Welton."A celebration of the body and its infinite richness of motion, multi-layered like a Kaleidoscope—Tere O’Connor’s beautifully crafted, riveting ensemble piece reverberates in the heart...."

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  • Audience Response to Tere O'Connor Work In Progress by Molly
    7/21/11

    Audience Response to Tere O'Connor's work in progress by Molly.  "Written as if I were inside the piece, this response attempts to personalize feelings of concealment, the buried side of ourselves that yearns to be unearthed. Thank you Tere for candidly discussing your work and for making this topic accessible...."

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  • Audience Review of Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly by Anne Barry
    8/24/10

    It all started so simply. Three large white boxes rest on the floor. A voice describes the choreography of a dance: “She grasps her bent elbow, runs hand down to wrist. He kneels on one knee.” Then a box begins to move, an unseen someone inside, perhaps grasping a bent elbow? The box slides along, without feet....

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  • Audience Review of Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly by Joel Benton
    8/24/10

    The photo that MTA sent out with their reminder email the week before, showed the performers inside the white boxes and my first reaction was skepticism. Being relatively new to the movement arts, I generally think about movement and dance in a somewhat traditional way (think ballet or contact improv)....

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  • Vivian Welton - Audience Response to Foofwa d'Imobilite
    8/11/10

    An artist named “Foofwa”—don’t we expect the bizarre, the incomprehensible?

    But here he is—a normal-looking guy--casual and relaxed in sweatsuit and gray socks, chatting with the audience while warming up…deceptive, for this is only the first of an electrifying range of characters we will meet in this fine-tuned and flowing solo performance.

    There is no “backstage” here—his “Grand Entrance” will be made from the great outdoors of Mt. Tremper, through what looks like the fire door—but we’ll speak of that later…

    First, we must be educated—for too many in the audience (myself included) are not that familiar with those two giants of Dance; Pina, Merce, (Michael, we know)—their quirks and characteristic styles of movement, their motives and mannerisms. Professor Foofwa to the rescue! A concise and clear history of Dance, Dance Evolution…yes, he’s a natural teacher-- what? You expected him to dance, not talk? Like I said, there’s many people in this show—all of them him.

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