Sprenger rocks 'em

Here's a quick recommendation: Megan V. Sprenger/mvworks, concluding the run of ...within us this week at Performance Space 122. This hour-long work's benign beginning--why, it could be a downtown cocktail party without the cocktails!--swiftly gives way to controlled chaos within a tight environment that the troupe has obviously come to know very well. They have to know it--and one another--quite well, for there's risk for themselves as well as for us, the audience, observing from the very unsafe space they inhabit. Forget the fourth wall; this dance rocks you hard, sometimes comforts you with a touch, never lets you off the hook. You look but rarely from the privilege and luxury of distance. It sent a chill up my spine. I'm still rattled by it. I never come right home and sit down to write about a piece, but here I am, right now, writing to you.

Sprenger's valiant performers are Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski and Richert Schnorr. Her team, cooking up this visceral/emotional experience, includes Joe Levasseur (lighting), Jason Sebastian (sound design and composition) and Brad Kisicki (set design).

...within us continues with 7:30pm performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and a 5:30pm performance on Sunday.

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Listen to my May 11th interview with Sprenger for Body and Soul podcast.