ColleenThomasDance at DTW

The fact that ColleenThomasDance has only one remaining night--that would be tonight, kids--of a two-night gig at Dance Theater Workshop makes me very unhappy. You're likely to miss this show, The Christopher Lancaster Period: Circumstance of a fall. But if you make it, you'll have a good time and come to the conclusion that Thomas and her musical soul mate, Chris Lancaster, are geniuses at making richly satisfying "downtown" performance.

Together with an awesome cast of dancers and band, including classically-trained singer Lisa Komara, these collaborators create multidimensional movement/sound collages that bypass a watcher's literal, linear mind. I love the way Thomas deploys dancers who are full, vivid persons often doing kooky stuff that seems plucked out of rational context but steadily evolves its own internal logic right before your eyes. And Lancaster's live music--which grows festive and passionate--simply soars. You wish for these two, lots of space, lots of time, not merely a weekend.

The Christopher Lancaster Period: Circumstance of a fall includes three pieces--Winning You With Words (this is how we fall), Jane Can't Connect (aka open arms) and When the earth was flat, it smelled like the color pink, and I believed--the last two of which cleverly overlap.

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