A great, big Yes!

Yessified!--by Sally Silvers & Dancers at Performance Space 122--is, as advertised, a dance about race, not racism. That's clear. Which is probably one reason I had such a good time watching it, although, at times, I found myself drifting in and out of certain segments where the apparently infinite Silvers stream of inventiveness got to be a bit too much.

But that didn't happen often. For the most part, Silvers and her multicultural fellow dancers--Javier Cardona, Liz Filbrun, Alan Good, Sara Beth Higgins, Takemi Kitamura, Alejandra Martorell, Miriam Parker and Keith Sabado--use their bodies to nonverbally argue for America as a place where races and cultures are already vitally and inextricably interwoven.

Silvers begins from base camp--from her life as a Appalachian-born white woman (who questions what white really means) and from her career in postmodern dance. Surrounding herself with a corps of prancing balletomodern sylphs, she clearly identifies as misfit and mutt. From there, she introduces her theme of the continuous, interlocked twirling of yin and yang and, from that foundational twirling, begins spinning her world-wide spider web of quirky and constantly readjusted interconnections.

Yessified! boasts numerous delicious duets and ensemble numbers and one adorable solo for Sabado. Everyone works very, very hard, especially since every moment is simply chock-full of stuff. This is the most stuffed hour of dance I've ever seen. I think Silvers might have been trying to convey the sense of pace and crowdedness of the city or, beyond that, the bigness and Whitmanesque complexity of America.

And any dance set to a score that--among many, many other rich things--evokes the likes of Otis Redding and Sam and Dave? Well, Sally, I'm there. The vibrant sound score conjured up by Bruce Andrews and Michael Schumacher--with its dissonance and its classic, perennial soul--is one of the most satisfying achievements of this season.

Yessified!--a joyful discovery--ends perfectly, just as I envisioned and wanted.

See Yessified! now through this Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 6:30pm. Tickets at Performance Space 122, or call 212-352-3101.