Two beauties at Danspace

With Walk It Once, Tara O'Con (recently interviewed on Body and Soul) aspires to nothing short of the revelation of the body's experience, unfiltered by conventional understanding and utility. Valiant Jodi Bender and Carly Pansulla--later joined by O'Con--move in glacial and melty contortions, their faces hidden. Lighting wiz Kathy Kaufmann sculpts it all with a sensitive glow, and composer Jason Sebastian's looping sound design grows richer, more delicious over time.

Spare white framing and a rectangular patch of plastic lawn suggest suburban space in Standard Gravity, part 2b by Living Laboratory/Enrico D. Wey, an ensemble sharing the evening with O'Con's trio. Enrico D. Wey's offbeat and pitch-perfect performers arrange themselves within imagined horizontal, vertical and psychic layers of St. Mark's sanctuary in such a cool, detached way that the viewer dare not even breathe too deeply for fear of creating a disturbance.

These two challenging, rewarding and handsome works continue at Danspace Project tonight and tomorrow, Saturday, at 8:30pm. Click here for information and ticketing or call 866-811-4111.