Becoming Delirious

LIAISONS is a mutable event by Delirious Dances that happens in someone's living room (or your own) or in a senior center, hospital or gallery and brings Edisa Week's dancers and their big, alive, full-out performing within inches of your face...sometimes closer. Just under an hour and accompanied by some easy-listening Mantovani that--I swear to you, up and down--you will come to love, the piece experiments with the potential of human interaction, touch and vulnerability. It is, by turns, lovely, funny and hair-raising.

The cast I saw included Benjamin Asriel, Maxx Passion, Melissa Guerrero and Solomon Bafana Matea; LIAISONS has also been performed by Jenni Hong, Kate Johnson, Benjamin Kamino and Jeffrey Peterson. The variety of venues and diversity of audiences inspire the unexpected from these performers who, within Weeks's flexible choreographic parameters, use physical-spatial control to keep from mashing our toes but otherwise allow their imaginations free range.

Catch a few performances this coming weekend in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Williamsburg. In October, the company gives two performances at Princeton University. Visit the Delirious Dances site for a schedule of events, ticketing details and more information.