Yummy baked goods at Fall for Dance

Mmmm... Some scrumptious doings at last night's Fall for Dance dance-sampler festival at City Center from Ayman Harper and Mario Zambrano of Richard Siegal/The Bakery in Siegal's The New 45, a duet premiered in 2006. It was like watching some of those Tharp-heyday performances from Sara Rudner, Shelley Washington, Rose Marie Wright...and then some. Loose, fluid, spritely physical with impulses that come from everywhere and from out of nowhere, zippy timing, an outpouring of invention and easygoing humor, and that impudent way of snuggling up to jazz and calypso. The audience roared.

Siegal will perform his solo, As If Stranger--which won Siegal and his collaborators a 2008 Bessie Award for visual design--for the opening ceremonies of EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, New York, October 9-10). I missed As If Stranger when it ran at Danspace Project this past season. After savoring The New 45, I intend to run to the next show Siegal brings to New York City.