Kate Weare: As good as it gets

Yes, summer's here, and there's certainly a lot of fun stuff going on around town, including the last bits of the 2008-09 dance season. But make time for Kate Weare Company, which concludes its run at Danspace Project tonight at 8:30. Most dance runs are way too short, and thank Goddess I didn't miss this one!

Weare is our fierce poet of contemporary dance movement, our bold painter of the complex landscape and volatile atmospherics of relationships. She's showing two works at Danspace, both winners--the world premiere of Lean-to, set to a beautiful score played live by Michel Galante & Argento Chamber Ensemble, and the New York premiere of Bridge of Sighs. Weare's grounded inventiveness and exemplary craft--study up, all you cocky, aspiring dancemakers and some of you cocky veterans, too!--are more than matched by the astonishing depth of her dancers' expressive talents. You don't get much better than the likes of Leslie Kraus, Adrian Clark, Douglas Gillespie and Jennifer Nugent, dancers I could watch all day, any day.

So, get there, tonight. The information's all here.