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Israeli-born Shemy inserts her seven dancers into this confined, austere setting, turning it into a theater of sorts in which soft, human flesh conforms to (and messes with) rigid structure and takes on mechanical behavior. You become aware of the vulnerability of bare feet in a narrow patch of wood chips and on thin carpets of Astroturf. But the dancers, dressed in tacky polyester vintage-store clothing, seem blasted beyond vulnerability--trapped in dissociated or pathologically elated states of mind.
Shemy--remember her Arena and its similarly driven, dissociated, often brutal women athletes?--has an endless well of invention of this sort of stuff. She puts it to use, once again, in this site-specific piece, 2 kilos of sea. Her dancers--the excellent Denisa Musilova, Savina Theodorou, Erika Eichelberger, Nicholas Bruder, Christina Robson, Leah Nelson and Michael Ingle--turn the courtyard into the most grotesque musical jewelry box or Swiss clock ever. Jim Dawson's soundscape gets under your skin.
Mysterious, fragmented, deeply weird and sometimes perplexing, 2 kilos of sea might send some Wall Street area workers back from lunch break with queasy stomachs.
Take your own chances, today through Thursday, at 12:30pm and 5pm; Thursday, only at 12:30. Free!
A co-presentation of the River to River Festival and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Directions
Subway: Broadway/Nassau (A & C lines) and Fulton Street (2, 3, 4, and 5 lines). John Street is one block south of Fulton Street.
Bus service: #15 to John Street, #6 to Fulton Street, or The Downtown Connection to South Street Seaport and Fulton Street
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